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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP for Deltup package update system
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:43:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307301143.43384.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030729164521.22199.qmail@linuxmail.org>

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On Tuesday 29 July 2003 18:45, John Whitney wrote:
> The space requirements are dynamic - they can be scaled to any level
> desired.  We don't need patches for every package.  This is accomplished by
> knowing which patches are available before trying to download them.  You
> can provide a significant number of patches with just 100MB of space.  Take
> a look at my demo repository: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/deltup/patchfiles. 
> All these patches take under 50MB and are still not fully optimized (newer
> patches will be about 33% more efficient).  It'd be great to start out with
> patches for kernel, kde, gnome, gcc, mozilla, and some other big and
> necessary packages.  Remember, there are a lot of dial-up users out there
> (some with only one phone line! :O :) ) A quota based system would be
> fine...

You also might want to use download figures from a used mirror (not the 
failsafe that is last in the list) to see which patches are actually wanted 
by the userbase. If no-one downloads a certain patch that would signal the 
time has come to remove it.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-30  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-29 16:45 [gentoo-dev] GLEP for Deltup package update system John Whitney
2003-07-30  9:43 ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
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2003-07-28 22:09 John Whitney
2003-07-29  9:14 ` bdharring
2003-07-29 12:20 ` Kurt Lieber

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