Re: Debdelta and Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-05-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 09:47:47 +0200, A Mennucc wrote: Il 25/04/2011 07:28, Guillem Jover ha scritto: But my main problem right now is that I didn't find clear documentation of the “debdelta” file format, the closest thing that I found was the debpatch [1] example file in the debdelta

Re: Debdelta and Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-04-25 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi again, Il 25/04/2011 07:28, Guillem Jover ha scritto: The data.tar does not need to be recompressed for dpkg to be able to install it. (that is true) But my main problem right now is that I didn't find clear documentation of the “debdelta”

Re: Debdelta and Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-04-24 Thread A Mennucc
Jayawardena ha scritto: I came across the idea of streaming package installation[2] for dpkg/APT in Debian's wiki page for last year's summer of code. I found it interesting. I wrote to the debian-dpkg list about my interest and got two replies from them. In the replies, there was a mention about

Re: Debdelta and Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-04-24 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 23:44:25 +0200, A Mennucc wrote: here is a reply to a message you sent me long ago; this message also referenced a message in debian-dpkg [1], so I am CC-ing them as well. Ah perfect, had in mind talking about the apt/debdelta integration GSoC proposal [0] with you

Re: Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-01-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2011-01-05 at 07:01 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Something which I guess would speed up the installation process could be to just make apt download the packages in self-contained batches, which can be unpacked/configured independently. This would also not really need any change in dpkg

Re: Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-01-05 Thread Ishan Jayawardena
Hi, Guillem and Lars, thank you very much for your detailed replies. They are really informative and encouraging. From your replies what I learned was that, the idea is quite complex and instead of streaming, we can think of other ways of speeding up the installation process, which has taken my

Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-01-04 Thread Ishan Jayawardena
Hi, I would like to know about the streaming package installation for dpkg/APT. I read about this from last year's summer of code ideas list of Debian [1], and found it interesting. I also found that it had not been taken by any of the applicants, and, therefore, I would like to work

Re: Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-01-04 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 09:55:29 +0530, Ishan Jayawardena wrote: I would like to know about the streaming package installation for dpkg/APT. I read about this from last year's summer of code ideas list of Debian [1], and found it interesting. I also found that it had not been taken by any