Understanding debdelta.

Hi all, Please CC me if somebody decides to respond. As somebody who is interested in debdelta I was happy to see http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2011/05/msg6.html . Coincidentally I just published a blog post about the same http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/aptitude-debi

Re: Understanding debdelta.

At bottom :- 2011/5/10 : >> I am writing a complete debdelta documentation, see in >> http://debdelta.debian.net/html/ > Thanks, I read it and I have some notes. > One of the main goal is to speedup upgrading. Here are today's numbers from > my computer: >  downloaded deltas, size 6547kB time 19

Re: Understanding debdelta.

2011/5/10 shirish शिरीष : > It would be interesting too if Mennucc at some >indeterminate time in the > future also shares some stats as >to how many debdeltas were downloaded and > how much >bandwidth saved for others to further take part in the >experience. pretty intere

debdelta :- the case of missing deltas and errors

Hi all, First of all I'm happy to note that the debdelta repository/service has been up most of the time. While that is good but for sometime now I have seen that sometimes while doing a debdelta upgrade its unable to find some deltas. Why is that ? For e.g. $ sudo debdelta-upgrade acpid binuti

Does anybody know of the original motivations to have dpkg ?

Hi all, Does anybody know the original motivations for having dpkg and the apt-tools. I do remember that Ian Murdock had some issues with rpm (urpmi or whatever it was called circa '93-'94) either with dependency conflict resolution or/and the updates/upgrades. My google fu is not good at find

dpkg 1.8.11 and above buggy ?

Hi all, I filed today #844701 . Because I don't know or understand dpkg internals hence I put the severity as normal . Could somebody follow it up and look at what might be causing the odd behaviour as I shared therein ? Due to the above issue, I am currently running dpkg 1.8.10 which continues t