On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:04:16 +0200 David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No. Fetching Packages.gz over modem is a pain in the arse. Having it > only rsync the changes would be so nice. I must say that apt-get update using sid is a hell with my 56 k ;( Most of the Packages file doesn't change a lot in a single update, and it takes a lot of time to download the file. Even more, most of the times only the version and dependencies change (package comments remains) This is bad for me, as it takes a lot of time; and bad for servers/mirrors since it requires more server/mirror resources. Fine-grained package file updating would be cool, you could download only the needed updates (putting some kind of version control in the name of the package description file perhaps would only require a ls to know what packages to to update) (ie: the libc6 package and gnome* info file) and leave the rest untouched, so updates would be faster and servers/mirrors would be happy. Just a though about doing the same in a different form.