Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-16 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:09:07AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: [snip] I think the only sensible and simple thing to do is to provide a zsync file for the Contents files (zsync can 'look into' gz to rsync just the changes). Then every user can use a cron job to zsync the file to his system

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-15 Thread David Mandelberg
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I think the only sensible and simple thing to do is to provide a zsync file for the Contents files (zsync can 'look into' gz to rsync just the changes). Then every user can use a cron job to zsync the file to his system on a daily, weekly, monthly, whatever basis.

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:12:05AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could we have a package which provides /usr/share/.../Contents.gz? Not sure that share/ is the right place. And as Matt said, versioning is a potential problem. But lintian (and

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Mandelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I think the only sensible and simple thing to do is to provide a zsync file for the Contents files (zsync can 'look into' gz to rsync just the changes). Then every user can use a cron job to zsync the file to his system

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could we have a package which provides /usr/share/.../Contents.gz? Not sure that share/ is the right place. And as Matt said, versioning is a potential problem. But lintian (and others: apt-file) could depend on this package (say,

Bug#60810: contents.gz package

2005-01-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
Could we have a package which provides /usr/share/.../Contents.gz? Not sure that share/ is the right place. And as Matt said, versioning is a potential problem. But lintian (and others: apt-file) could depend on this package (say, debian-dist-contents). Justin