Re: Hints about future improvements

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com> writes:

> I think the ideal solution would be to have a caching proxy based on
> rsync to communicate with the upstream mirror, and http (or a new
> apt method) to communicate with apt.

I was actually thinking the other day about why couldn't apt support
rsync:// URLs?  That would be the way to implement it.

OTOH, I wonder how much benefit binary diffs could really give.  Since
every .deb is mostly gzip compressed data, wouldn't you often need to
retrieve the whole thing again anyway?

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