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Re: slowing down point releases

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> 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.
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> 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.

Have you looked at rsync ?  It does something prety close to this.

I have been contemplating adding a hook to rsync, that allows you to un-compress files (or in your case unbuild .deb's) so that the data comparison would work.

This is the only reason that rsync does not match your requirements already, since the use of compression means that a one byte change near the start of a file results in a totally changed compressed file.

AFAIK someone has already used rsync to write a server for mirroring.

Cheers, Phil.


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