On Sun 2008-01-27 22:37 , Xavier wrote:
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.
Well, updated say, once a week, would be still very useful, but if an user search for /lib/libwhatever.so.7 and doesn't have any result, then he could ask himself if this is because no package owns that file or because the db is outdated. Anyway, once a week is still better than nothing :) -- Alessio Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB