* Marc Haber: >> With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in >> terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive >> metadata. AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space >> consumption shouldn't be an obstacle, either. > > Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf > syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system > without root privileges.
The secure-testing archive contains a self-contained reimplementation in Python with a very simple command-line interface (guess why). > Additionally, parsing the Sources file is another challenge. The existing code should be sufficient; after all, you only need the Package and Version field. > And again additionally, I don't want to get alerts just because my > mirror is down or desynced. At least you can fix those problems yourself. If the PTS were down (like pdo at the monent), there wouldn't be much you could do about it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
