Re: Proposal: A new approach to differential debs

2017-08-13 Thread Peter Silva
You are assuming the savings are substantial. That's not clear. When files are compressed, if you then start doing binary diffs, well it isn't clear that they will consistently be much smaller than plain new files. it also isn't clear what the impact on repo disk usage would be. The most straig

Re: Proposal: A new approach to differential debs

2017-08-13 Thread Peter Silva
May 28 11:28 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia_375.66-1_amd64.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3101944 Jul 16 17:14 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia_375.66-2~deb9u1_amd64.deb blacklab% On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 10:53:16AM -0400, Peter Silva wrote: >>

Re: Proposal: A new approach to differential debs

2017-08-13 Thread Peter Silva
ian Seiler wrote: > On 08/13/2017 07:11 PM, Peter Silva wrote: >>> apt by default automatically deletes packages files after a successful >>> install, >> >> I don't think it does that. > > The "apt" command line tool doesn't, but traditi

Re: A radically different proposal for differential updates

2017-08-15 Thread Peter Silva
Isn't there kind of a universal issue that tar and compression happen sort of in the wrong order? Wouldn't it make more sense to make files that were .gz.tar (ie. compress the files individually, then have an index into them via tar.) Then tar works perfectly well for extracting individual files