Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:56:21PM -0500, sean finney wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:03:27PM -0500, Simon Law wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:47:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote: please, please treat this machine politely. it's my workstation

ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread sean finney
hey folks, in the past year or so i've been spending a fair amount of time with ldap. a while back, the thought occurred to me, why not put the list of available packages in ldap? so.. i did that. i found if you put a timestamp with the package on its way way into the ldap tree, you could

Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:47:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote: please, please treat this machine politely. it's my workstation and i have no qualms with turning off slapd if it's getting in the way :) If you're using OpenLDAP, there is no way that this could ever be fast. But, your idea is not

Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:03:27PM -0500, Simon Law wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:47:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote: please, please treat this machine politely. it's my workstation and i have no qualms with turning off slapd if it's getting in the way :) If you're using OpenLDAP,

Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:56:21PM -0500, sean finney wrote: now, if the apt method kept a timestamp of the last successful update, it could send as part of the ldap query filter something like '(debTimeStamp$lasttime)'. this would make keeping debian up to date over dialup a much easier

Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:56:21PM -0500, sean finney wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:03:27PM -0500, Simon Law wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:47:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote: please, please treat this machine politely. it's my workstation and i have no qualms with turning off slapd

Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:47 am, sean finney wrote: exponentially faster How, exactly, is this exponentially faster? Is it guaranteed to run in logarithmic time relative to a normal download? Sorry to bug you, but I see this phrase being used a lot to mean a whole lot faster and

Re: ldap - a completely new method for fetching lists of packages?

2004-12-02 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:08:17PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:47 am, sean finney wrote: exponentially faster How, exactly, is this exponentially faster? Is it guaranteed to run in logarithmic time relative to a normal download? Sorry to bug you,