Re: Whatever happened to...

2009-06-10 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Evan wrote: In the Intrepid cycle, there was something going on where it would add a last good boot option to grub instead of all the old kernels in order to keep the list cleaner and shorter. It was dropped quite close to release because of some unfixed bugs, and seems to have

Re: Whatever happened to...

2009-06-09 Thread Justin M. Wray
+1 Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Evan eapa...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:57:04 To: Ubuntu Development Discussion Listubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Whatever happened to... -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Felix Feyertag
Evan wrote: IIRC, it was going to provide delta updates. Smaller server load, smaller downloads, etc. It's a great idea, but seems to be dead. All of the pages I can find that mention it are early 2007. Is there any particular reason that it never went anywhere? In 2006 I participated

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Evan
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Felix Feyertag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 2006 I participated in summer of code to implement this, the project website is: https://launchpad.net/apt-sync The code is functional and I'm using it successfully on my home computer (usually saving around

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Felix Feyertag
Evan wrote: If the code is functional, shouldn't this be pushed to Ubuntu to be used by their repositories? Or would the CPU drain for aptsyncmake on that many packages be too much? I would like to set up a repository of aptsync files, and if this can be done on the Ubuntu servers, that