Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Eaton
On 4/30/06, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/rsync-and-debian.html Has anyone ever done some log file analysis to figure out how much bandwidth would be saved by transferring package deltas instead

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Eaton
On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Brian Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060501 15:51]: The only time delta packages will be a win is for upgrades where the client has the original package cached. If one does it right, it might be enough if the original package is *installed

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Eaton
On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Brian Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060501 16:42]: On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one does it right, it might be enough if the original package is *installed*. And that happens quite often, e.g. even for security

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Eaton
On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or you could create the diffdebs before upload or on ftp-master, and include the diffdebs somehow in the Packages file (so they're signed as well by the usual mechanismn). My initial view is that any delta package system that doesn't reproduce

effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-04-30 Thread Brian Eaton
Hello all - Regarding the ideas discussed here: http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/rsync-and-debian.html Has anyone ever done some log file analysis to figure out how much bandwidth would be saved by transferring package deltas instead of entire new packages? Assuming someone hasn't done