Le Lun 1 Mai 2006 15:31, Brian Eaton a écrit : > On 4/30/06, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Look at zsync and help develope it far enough so it can look into > > debs. Without that the gain is practicaly 0 or less. > > It's entirely possible that the gain will be nothing no matter what > algorithm is used. > > The only time delta packages will be a win is for upgrades where the > client has the original package cached. If the client is installing > the package from scratch, delta packages are useless.
that's a good point, and I suppose that most of the stable traffic is due to first install of the packages. Though, I think it's not true for : - security mirrors (like pointed out in the thread already) - testing and unstable, where users do many upgrades per month or even per week (I think I do almost one per day — let's say 5 per week — and I know a lot of people who do the same). The real question is: do people clean their apt cache or not ? I do, because after a full X.org/kde/openoffice upgrade, it takes quite a lot of disk in /var (that is small on my computers). And with that cache cleaned, I fail to see how we could improve things much. The mirrors replication could really benefit from that though. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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