Thank you thank you thank you! I am sure thousands of people out there would be grateful for this little gem.
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote: > My home internet connection, for various reasons, tends to alternate > between the two quality levels of "blows balls" and "blows giant > balls". This makes downloading and installing new snapshots an > exercise in frustration. I noticed that binary patches, as made by > bsdiff (thank you Colin Percival), could reduce the download time > significantly, if only there was patch generating machine in the sky > (sorry, cloud). So I made one. Link below. > > I've been using this with i386 for a while now. At first I more or > less hand generated the updates, but now it's all automatic. Even > including amd64. > > Basically, it's a perl script that downloads a database of patches and > applies them. There's a little bit of labor involved in setting it > up, but after that, you can run the script whenever you like and it > will take care of business. I generate snap diffs up to every day, > but the script will download batches if you care to only update on > weekends or something. > > The only real requirement (besides a few packages) is that you start > off running a snapshot I have diffs for. This goes back about a week > for i386, and about 2 days for amd64. And you need to have all the > sets installed (including X), or there will be bitching and whining. > Please pay attention to the part about creating > /var/db/bluesnapper/etc and xetc directories. > > Note that these are not official, and about the only promise you'll > get that I'm not secretly inserting trojans into everything is that > it's not worth my time to do so. > > Anyway, more detailed instructions and a link to the actual script are > below. I think it works. > > http://www.tedunangst.com/snapper.html
