Re: Whatever happened to...

2009-06-10 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Evan wrote: > In the Intrepid cycle, there was something going on where it would add > a "last good boot" option to grub instead of all the old kernels in > order to keep the list cleaner and shorter. It was dropped quite close > to release because of some unfixed bugs, and seems to have > disa

Re: Whatever happened to...

2009-06-09 Thread Justin M. Wray
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Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Felix Feyertag
Evan wrote: > If the code is functional, shouldn't this be pushed to Ubuntu to be used > by their repositories? Or would the CPU drain for aptsyncmake on that > many packages be too much? I would like to set up a repository of aptsync files, and if this can be done on the Ubuntu servers, that w

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Evan
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Felix Feyertag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In 2006 I participated in summer of code to implement this, the project > website is: > > https://launchpad.net/apt-sync > > The code is functional and I'm using it successfully on my home computer > (usually saving arou

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Felix Feyertag
Evan wrote: > IIRC, it was going to provide delta updates. Smaller server load, > smaller downloads, etc. It's a great idea, but seems to be dead. All of > the pages I can find that mention it are early 2007. > > Is there any particular reason that it never went anywhere? > In 2006 I participa

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-23 Thread Tony Yarusso
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any particular reason that it never went anywhere? While on the subject, I was wondering the same thing about debtorrent, which I've been told would help with the server loads when people upgrade to a new release. -- Ton