Hi Markus,
> > Do they need to install -0ubuntu2 and THEN -0ubuntu3?
>
> I don't know how Fedora does, but you always have the fallback option
> to download the full package. The server always has to provide full
> packages to allow new installations.
It would be logical for a from-version p
Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> I would like to know how they handle situations where the person hasn't
> updated in 3 weeks and the package has been updated in the meantime.
>
> Say, for example:
> -0ubuntu1 is currently installed
> -0ubuntu3 is available to install
>
> Do they need to install -0ubunt
If you just want to disable certain large packages, could you do some
sort of pinning arrangement on them? You should be able to configure
apt so that it (for example) prefers an older version of OOo to an
updated one, but likes a security fix better still. See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/P
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Am 01.02.2009 um 21:43 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:
> I would like to know how they handle situations where the person
> hasn't
> updated in 3 weeks and the package has been updated in the meantime.
>
> Say, for example:
> -0ubuntu1 is currently insta
On Saturday 31 January 2009 13:16:25 Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> If you want to avoid those sorts of updates and only get the security
ones,
> you can disable the "updates" repository and just use "security". That'd
> result in quite a lot of the updates being eliminated. There are also
> changelog
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> I would like to know how they handle situations where the person hasn't
> updated in 3 weeks and the package has been updated in the meantime.
Dunno if they do it like this, but I could imagine a system where the
updates are personalized.
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 13:38 -0600, nergar wrote:
> Isn't Fedora working on something like this right now?? Only downloading
> the pieces that were updated? If yes, It would help to look at what they
> are doing.
I would like to know how they handle situations where the person hasn't
updated in 3
Isn't Fedora working on something like this right now?? Only downloading
the pieces that were updated? If yes, It would help to look at what they
are doing.
Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am 31.01.2009 um 15:09 schrieb Davyd McColl:
>
>> I don't appreciate a 78mb download every other day because one
>>
Am 31.01.2009 um 15:09 schrieb Davyd McColl:
> I don't appreciate a 78mb download every other day because one
> config item in the kernel config has been changed or tweaked.
I think what you are really asking for are incremental packages.
Additional to full packages, each server would supply a
There is this bug but it is demoted to wishlist status at the moment...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/294523
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On Saturday 31 January 2009 09:09:04 Davyd McColl wrote:
> Here it is: whilst I totally appreciate all the hard work that goes into
> patching and maintaining the current release version of large packages (like
> the kernel, openoffice.org, or even just warsow, which has a large data
> component),
Another possibility that I just recalled was that of using lzma compression
instead of gzip for the packages. Again, it was discussed a while ago and I
haven't heard anything since. Did anything ever come of that?
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It sounds like a good idea, but I don't know how feasible it would be. I
know at one point there was also work going on with debdiffs, but I haven't
heard anything on that in a long time.
At the very least, this is definitely an area that needs to be looked at,
maybe at the Jaunty+1 UDS?
Evan
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I'm just putting this "out there", for some consideration and discussion.
I'm hoping someone can come up with a better idea than I have and that
perhaps there will be some kind of positive response to the request.
Here it is: whilst I totally appreciate all the hard work that goes into
patching an
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