replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Ian Bruce
for not doing that is? -- Ian Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Ian Bruce
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:45:16 -0700 Ian Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it seems that with the currently shipping versions of gzip (I tried both stable/updates and testing), there is actually no way to exactly replicate the compression produced by the standard package build system

Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Bruce
anything. -- Ian Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Bruce
, then fetching them with zsync (or rsync) would be considerably more efficient than straight HTTP transfers. That's the reason why that option was implemented. Perhaps it's thought that more testing is required before it can be used for the archives; is there any other reason not to use it? -- Ian Bruce

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Bruce
the Packages.gz file be compressed using the --rsyncable option, so that rsync can again be used for updating the packages list? -- Ian Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Bruce
of access methods, to address the varying situations of different client and mirror sites? -- Ian Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-26 Thread Ian Bruce
Oct 2004 07:10:28 -0700 From: Ian Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: apt-proxy v2 and rsync I was distressed to read the following in the documentation for the new apt-proxy: - rsync is not officially supported. It can work with rsync and some