On Saturday 20 December 2008 12:37, Kartik Mistry wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, shirish shirishag75@gmail.com
wrote:
Exactly my reasons for getting it into the limelight. I hope there is some discussion and a move to have this both in Debian as well as Ubuntu. Although from the discussions I saw on debian-devel it seems its going to be a long wait if anything does happen there at all :(
You can tweak your 'apt' for optimizing your need.
There is an 'apt-zip' package also, which may be help you when using slow connections.
apt-zip is not the same as the delta thing. It is a batching tool to run on a machine with Internet BW and space and then use the "package-ball" to update other machine without internet BW.
You can any way do this by creating a Packages.gz file along with the downloaded stuff.
Its myth and FUD that everything in Debian-devel takes time.
It takes more time than others. But given the rigorous test requirements, that would not be more than other similiar distros. The time taken is very well spent imo.