hi I had the same idea some time ago
if you ever decide to work on that, I may help Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I actualy have a little hack how one could implement patch debs now to > test this out: > > 1. Create an archive mirror with rsync batch files (or xdelta or > whatever) between the last and current version of each package. It > might be simplest to replace the data.tar.gz in each deb with the > rsync batch file and leave the rest of the deb as is. > > 2. Create Packages.gz and friends for those patch debs > > 3. Create an apt method "http-patch" to apt that will first check for > the old version of the package or dpkg-repack it, then forks the http > method to download the patch deb, applies the patch and returns the > build deb. > > 4. Add > > deb http-patch://server/path suite dist > > to sources.list _before_ the normal http url. > > > One drawback of this hack would be that you get an error from the > http-patch method when you don't have the previous version available > before apt-get falls back to the http url. > > MfG > Goswin > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]