Xdelta updates
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CostinCar
Updating Ubuntu is cumbersome, to say the least. Bandwidth, though spreading, is not always available, and xdeltas are a system of only distributing differences between packages.
This reduces bandwidth consumption dramatically, and also download time.
SUSE already implements this system.
It seems that bsddiff could be a solution. Anyway, the point of this specification is making incremental updates possible, no matter in what manner.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- CostinCar
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- Proposed for edgy
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Michael Vogt
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There is not enough detail here to proceed with implementation -mdz, 2006-07-06
This should be covered with the apt-sync spec now. --mvo
(?)
