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

Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-22 Thread Evan
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? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list