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Re: slowing down point releases

Guy wrote:
> Yes, 28.8k can provide 3k/second at night to well-connected sites.
> That's 20 meg/hour.  In the US, neither phone service nor most ISPs
> charge by the hour, instead charging fixed rates for unlimited use.
> 
> Downloading for 10 hours is a more expensive proposition for our
> non-US friends.

FWIW, I'm working on a little utility that will do a "diff" between
two versions of a .deb file.  

I'm thinking of developing a simple HTTP-based protocol that will 
use this capability to only transfer the differences between 
subsequent versions of ".deb" files.  Hopefully, for people mirroring 
the Debian distribution, this would cut down the amount of data that
must be transferred by 90% or so (just a guess).  It might be
possible to build it into a "dpkg-ftp" style Access method as well.

It would be a huge win for database-style packages such as the 
picon-* packages, doc-rfc, etc.  Plus, it would then make sense to
make packages that get updated everyday - such as a bug list or
a mailing list archive.  Essentially, a .deb file distributed using
this protocol would be indistinguishable from one of those 
much-hyped "push" channels.

Hopefully I'll get something out soon.  It might have some impact on
how Klee is designing "package certificates" for dpkg.

Cheers,

 - Jim

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