Another option would be to provide xproxy-based access to the Packages file. Xproxy server stores file history in an xdfs volume (see xdelta2), and only sends the delta to an xproxy client, to which one can connect as an HTTP 1.1 proxy.
xproxy binary is in the xdelta2 package currently in sid. I have split in into package xproxy-http, with startup scripts, docs, etc, but the splitted package still awaits in queue/new. Note that AFAIK it still lacks purging of very-old versions from the xdfs volume, this has to be done manually. HTH, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Développeur Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
