Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, i think if there .diff's exist, maybe apt-get can patch the >> Changes into the files on the client, or a small wrapper arround >> apt-get can do this.. > > Goodness, you are the second person to ask for this in a month. Diff is not > suitable since there are many versions the file could be diffed against. You > need rsync, anoncvs, or similar. > > Some of the servers run rsync, which works well for the Packages file, but > does not work for the packages themselves. Other mirrors do not run rsync > since it puts extra CPU load on their server. Perhaps you could find/use a > mirror with public rsync access. To do this, just replace http with rsync in > your sources.list
With which apt version ? I don't find any usr/lib/apt/methods/rsync :(