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 others: apt-file) could > > depend on this package (say, debian-dist-contents). > > > > Justin > > First of all how do you plan to update the testing package every day? That would be ideal..
> They should reflect the testing Contents, right? Contents of whatever is installed, preferably. > You also have to release a new version every day. That is an 8MB deb > per arch and a source containing all 13 archs. That is 208MB updates > per day and suite. ~400MB for testing and unstable every day. Are architectures Contents ever significantly different? > Still way way to much data on a daily basis. Hadn't thought of that. > 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. zsync uses the > http protocol so any http mirror carrying the Contents files will do > as source. So maybe an debian-contents-updater package. It contains some cronjob entry, maybe a debconf question, or it uses /etc/defaults/. Yes, that would work nicely, I think. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]