On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:19:40 +0000 Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:05:53AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > To take a fairly trivial example from -devel right now: people have been > > going on and on about wanting to make Packages files easier to download > > for ages now, and the threads take the exact same path each time: > > "let's split them", "oh wait, that doesn't work properly", "let's make > > them incremental", "well, why not use rsync", "no, let's rearrange the > > archive" and we end up without any consensus, nor anything that works > > with existing tools, nor an actual fix for the problem. > > Actually, that one was solved, by Ben Bell. He set up the scripts to > calculate teh diffs, do the md5sum checks for consistency, download, > apply etc. if that's not an official solution, that'll be integrated in apt or on the server side, that's not solved... a shell script to create diffs on people.debian.org/~kov and bring them to my machine is easy to create, but that's not useful at all for the project []s! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
