Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-12 Thread Robert Tiberius Johnson
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 00:14, Anthony Towns wrote: > No, I'm not. I'm saying that "the amount of time spent waiting for > apt-get update" needs to count every apt-get update you run, not just > the first. So, if over a period of a week, I run it seven times, and you > run it once, I wait seven times

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:40:31PM -0700, Robert Tiberius Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 02:28, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I'd suggest your formula would be better off being: > > bandwidthcost = sum( x = 1..30, prob(x) * cost(x) / x ) > I think it depends on what you're measuring. I can

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-12 Thread Robert Tiberius Johnson
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 09:46, Erich Schubert wrote: > What diff options do you use? > As the diffs are expected to be applied to the correct version, they > probably shouldn't contain the old data, but the new data only. Good point. I used diff -ed, so I think this is not including unnecessary con

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-12 Thread Robert Tiberius Johnson
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 04:35, Michael Bramer wrote: > > Scheme Disk space Bandwidth > > --- > > Checksums (bwidth optimal)26K 81K > > diffs (4 days)32K

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-12 Thread Robert Tiberius Johnson
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 02:28, Anthony Towns wrote: > I think you'll find you're also unfairly weighting this against people > who do daily updates. If you do an update once a month, it's not as much > of a bother waiting a while to download the Packages files -- you're > going to have to wait _much

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Erich Schubert
> Scheme Disk space Bandwidth > --- > Checksums (bwidth optimal)26K 81K > diffs (4 days)32K 331K > diffs (9 days)71K

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:29:49PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:22:50AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:25:22AM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > > With the standard rsync algorithm, the rsync checksum files would actually > >

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:26:17AM -0700, Robert Tiberius Johnson wrote: > This looks like an interesting algorithm, so I decided to compare it to > the diff scheme analyzed in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg00502.html > > The above message also gives my analys

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:22:50AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:25:22AM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > With the standard rsync algorithm, the rsync checksum files would actually > > be 8 times larger than the original file (you need to store the checksum > > f

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:39:19PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > I beleive this method is patented by somebody, [snip] > > has someone a pointer? Here's some stuff from my mail archives - I haven't checked whether the l

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:28:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > 0 days of diffs: 843.7 KiB (the current situation) > ...which pretty much matches what I'd expect: at the moment, just to > update main, people download around 1.2MB per day; Uh, obviously this should be 843KiB. (I'd been playi

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:26:17AM -0700, Robert Tiberius Johnson wrote: > - I tend to update every day. For people who update every day, the > diff-based scheme only needs to transfer about 8K, but the > checksum-based scheme needs to transfer 45K. So for me, diffs are > better. :) I think you'

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Robert Tiberius Johnson
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 17:25, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > What you are suggesting is that the server store checksums for precalculated > blocks on the server. This would be 4 bytes per 1k in the original file or > so. The transaction proceeds as follows: > > 1. Client asks for checksum list off

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-10 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:25:22AM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > you propose to add 'some' diff files for all files on ftp-master.d.o? > > > > With rsync we need only one rsync-checksum file per normal file and > > all a

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > you propose to add 'some' diff files for all files on ftp-master.d.o? > > With rsync we need only one rsync-checksum file per normal file and > all apt's need only download the neededs parts. > > You get the point? With the stand

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Otto Wyss
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg00757.html Thanks for this pointer. My debiansynch script never runs into problem "1. rsync -r" since it always does single file transfers. And for problem "2. rsync of near identical files" it's not astonishing using a high cpu l

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mar 09/04/2002 à 20:13, Jason Gunthorpe a écrit : > > -> make the check on the client site and > > -> download the file partly per ftp/http > > -> make the new file with the old and downloaded parts > > > > With this the server need only extra rsync-checksum files. > > Rumor around rsy

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Michael Bramer wrote: > -> make the check on the client site and > -> download the file partly per ftp/http > -> make the new file with the old and downloaded parts > > With this the server need only extra rsync-checksum files. Rumor around rsync circles is that this

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:25:04PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:39:19PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > > I beleive this method is patented by somebody, which is why it's not in > > > u

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:34:43PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:09:39AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > no. sorry. I must say this: > > > > We can use rsync on the client site. > > -> get a rsync-checksum file (use a fix block size) > > -> make the check on the

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:02:14AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:11:00AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > > > - I would like to have templates with substitution fields. > > > > > > > > > > Alread

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:09:39AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > hello > > we sould stop this and start after woody again... > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:17:46PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:55:17PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > Sorry, diffs are simply silly! Use

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:24:42PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:39:19PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > > > I beleive

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:39:19PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > > I beleive this method is patented by somebody, which is why it's not in > > > use/supported. Possib

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:11:00AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > > - I would like to have templates with substitution fields. > > > > > > > > Already exists. > > > > > > Any references? > > > > How about the debconf manu

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:39:19PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > I beleive this method is patented by somebody, which is why it's not in > > use/supported. > > > > Other than that, it's very nice idea. I beleive there may

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:39:19PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:09:39AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > > This isn't server friendly. > > > > no. sorry. I must say this: > > > > We can use rsync on the client site. > > -> get a rsync-checksum file (use a

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:09:39AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > hello > > we sould stop this and start after woody again... > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:17:46PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:55:17PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > > > > I'd suggest using diffs, as

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:16:44AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Joey Hess wrote on Wed Mar 27, 2002 um 02:21:49PM: > > That is a rather misleading summary of the situation, which as a > > subscriber to debian-boot, you should understand better. Have you done > > any testing of the propo

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:55:17PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > > I'd suggest using diffs, as this brings the best results and is the > > > > [diffs for Packages files that is] > > > > > wooo!!! > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~dancer/Packages-for-main-i386/ > > > > > > > > > # Time for

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:11:00AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > - I would like to have templates with substitution fields. > > > > > > Already exists. > > > > Any references? > > How about the debconf manual? but sorry, we have some outdated translations in debconf templates files. N

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 04:49:25AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) cum veritate scripsit: > > > Packages.0 from 28-March is probably the newest and the smallest upgrade > > is problably the diff for one day (209k uncompressed, 50k gzipped). On > > the 28th rsync's down

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Bramer
hello we sould stop this and start after woody again... On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:17:46PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:55:17PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > > > I'd suggest using diffs, as this brings the best results and is the > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-d

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Jeroen Dekkers > > | It does also other things, like making distribution creation more > | flexible. I'm thinking of having a some kind of package file for every > | source package. That would include the current information and

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Jeroen Dekkers | It does also other things, like making distribution creation more | flexible. I'm thinking of having a some kind of package file for every | source package. That would include the current information and maybe a | lot more things like URL of upstream, license, etc. This file wo

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-06 Thread Peter Cordes
Adam Majer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:53:00PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > 1) Large packages files > > [... 3 level idea ...] > > I would suggest a solution that is much easier to manage. That is, packages > should be sorted according to the date that the package was modified. > This co