* Vagrant Cascadian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070105 06:04]:
> i was wondering if reprepro could support downloading Packages, Sources,
> etc. using apt's pdiff mechanisms, as this can save a lot of bandwidth
> on daily updates.
I've added it to the TODO-list. But I doubt it will come soon as there
are other things have higher priorities (I don't use pdiff myself)
and it would be quite some time to implement it (I just hate the time
apt's implementation takes by applying each diff on its own, and feeding
scripts into a general-purpose program (ed) hoping the restriction
filter before parses everything correctly and only lets harmless
commands pass would undoublty cause my paranoia to waste quite some time
finding a better solution).
On the other hand at least being able to download .bz2 files instead of
the .gz files would be nice and as that would need some reorganisation
(currently the unpacking is done on-the-fly in the package updating
part and the list part only copes with compressed files to reduce the
disk usage of the downloaded lists) that part will get some work on
which will most likely also lead to the pdiff stuff supported.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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