27 Jan
2008
27 Jan
'08
9:37 p.m.
Alessio Bolognino wrote:
I had the same idea, but I decided it wasn't a great one because to be useful it should be updated every time a new package is released, and IMHO that's not feasible (mainly for the user), considering its size.
I still think the best implementation is to create a filelist with repo-add (or whatever script you use to generate the db) on the Arch server and then let is spread in the mirrors. As someone already wrote, xdelta would decrease dramatically the size of the filelist to download.
I don't see why it would need to be updated so often. Even if it was updated once a week, I would still find it very useful.