* Brian Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060501 17:49]: > On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* Brian Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060501 16:42]: > >> On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> >If one does it right, it might be enough if the original package is > >> >*installed*. And that happens quite often, e.g. even for security > >> >upgrades. > > > >> So to do this you'd rebuild the original .debs on the fly, from the > >> files installed on the system? Cool! Do you know if anyone has tried > >> doing this? > > > >No, why? You could just create a diffdeb that contains only the changed > >files. > > That sounds reasonable. It depends on the mechanism used to cache > checksums on the server side. If you're going to handle individual > files instead of .debs, you would need to run the checksum routines on > the files individually instead of on the .debs as a whole.
Or you could create the diffdebs before upload or on ftp-master, and include the diffdebs somehow in the Packages file (so they're signed as well by the usual mechanismn). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
