On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:37:29PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Say, would the least bandwidth package updating system be one where > > the user just does > > rsync mirror:Packages /var/... > > then for $(each package that needs updating) > > rsync mirror:uncompressed_package /var/... > > Hmmm, but then it's not usually just documents that have changed... > > OK, then how does ubuntu do it? Well then more time is spent > > compiling. Anyway, just wondering if one put the highest priority on > > bandwidth... > > Hmmm, I suppose no way you look at it, you're not going to be able to > > track sid with just a modem without extra $. > > > > > > I don't know if it is in Sid yet, but I think that new version of dpkg > was recently uploaded to experimental that defaults to using rsync for > updating the package database at least. >
the most recent DWN mentioned something about this as well, for apt (though I suppose its for dpkg on the backend) using just the changes in the downloads instead of the whole packages. THis will do so much to save everyone bandwidth that I can't imagine it'll take long to trickle down. A
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