Re: Delta debs / zsync (etc) discussions gone quiet?
in-line :- On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 18:45, Lars Wirzenius l...@ubuntu.com wrote: Indeed. Thanks for your notes, they are very useful. Finding and fixing the problems is what I'm currently looking at. In the long run, it would be good to have checksums of .debs be done on the uncompressed data, but that's going to require fairly invasive changes in all sorts of places, and should be done in co-operation with Debian. I'm looking at low-hanging fruit first. Thank you for informing us. I do hope there is some movement in 2-3 releases to get something done right/efficient or/and during alpha cycles which some of us might be comfortable. Would be nice to know what low hanging fruit you are going to target in this direction and what help you might need from potential testers/users ? Also thanks Vishal for kicking off this important discussion. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Delta debs / zsync (etc) discussions gone quiet?
ti, 2009-08-11 kello 04:39 +0530, Vishal Rao kirjoitti: There was recently some mailing list activity about benchmarking tests for delta debs/zsync etc but things seem to have gone quiet recently. Is there a wiki/spec/blueprint or another mailing list where I can track progress? The spec is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptSyncInKarmicSpec but doesn't change much. The summary of my conclusions: * zsync works very well for ISO images (for testers) * zsync works very well for Packages files * debdelta works well for .deb files The ISO images are now having .zsync files generated. This is useful to reduce the time to do ISO testing cycles during beta and release candidate testing. Testers need to update their images often. It is not useful for end-users, who merely need to get the final version; bittorrent is better for that. The Launchpad developers will try to implement generation of Packages.zsync and debdeltas for the karmic release, and I will try to get the corresponding apt changes done as well. However, since I have little C++ skill and no experience with the apt code base, this might not make it for the actual release. If not, then I'll provide a PPA with the modifications. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Delta debs / zsync (etc) discussions gone quiet?
Hello, There was recently some mailing list activity about benchmarking tests for delta debs/zsync etc but things seem to have gone quiet recently. Is there a wiki/spec/blueprint or another mailing list where I can track progress? As an Ubuntu user from a place with slow and expensive broadband I'm keen to be able to play around (help test) anything that comes out, and I do hope there is something for the Karmic timeframe itself? Feature freeze being so close worries me a lot :-) - Vishal -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
