Aaron Whitehouse wrote: > On 18/12/2007, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A while ago I read about changing apt/dpkg to allow for the handling of >> security updates through binary patches. Does anyone know what came out >> of this? > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/apt-sync
The wiki says this was part of the 2006 google summer of code. Did this get done? Also I have some questions about a few parts: 1) Why bother using --rsyncable with gzip? Zsync with look inside allows efficient rsync to be done on compressed data without giving up compression efficiency by restarting the compression stream every x bytes. 2) Should we not fix apt and other tools to verify the checksums on the files contained in the package, rather than the package as a whole? That would eliminate the issues with reassembling a package that has a few bits different, but still contains the correct data. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
