Re: Delta debs / zsync (etc) discussions gone quiet?

2009-10-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 18:45, Lars Wirzenius 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

Re: Delta debs / zsync (etc) discussions gone quiet?

2009-08-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2009-08-21 kello 14:57 +0200, Pär Andersson kirjoitti: > Have you benchmarked zsync against the Packages.diff files used by > Debian? From https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-July/028568.html: I have not compared zsync with pdiffs. Ubuntu does not use pdiffs be

Re: Delta debs / zsync (etc) discussions gone quiet?

2009-08-21 Thread Pär Andersson
Hi, I got interested in this while reading the previous threads. Recently I helped a friend install jauntu and downloading updates right after the installation took more than 12 hours which was not very nice. Lars Wirzenius writes: > The summary of my conclusions: > > * zsync works very well for

Re: Delta debs / zsync (etc) discussions gone quiet?

2009-08-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
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

Delta debs / zsync (etc) discussions gone quiet?

2009-08-10 Thread Vishal Rao
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