From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25178 invoked by uid 1002); 30 Jul 2003 09:43:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1949 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2003 09:43:44 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:43:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030729164521.22199.qmail@linuxmail.org> In-Reply-To: <20030729164521.22199.qmail@linuxmail.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_PN5J/24f4ySKn+8"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307301143.43384.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP for Deltup package update system X-Archives-Salt: bb82d6ca-98c8-46dd-836b-503bb9b80d96 X-Archives-Hash: 9d8e4ab5a522591ed8e5962ae4b0ddd3 --Boundary-02=_PN5J/24f4ySKn+8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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. Ta= ke > a look at my demo repository: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/deltup/patchfiles= =2E=20 > 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 wi= th > 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=20 failsafe that is last in the list) to see which patches are actually wanted= =20 by the userbase. If no-one downloads a certain patch that would signal the= =20 time has come to remove it. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv --Boundary-02=_PN5J/24f4ySKn+8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/J5NPbKx5DBjWFdsRAg/IAJ9QeK7ZdX3Hrq9IqPH8jB4M2Yd2HwCgnI+8 cQYWpIVaivXN841c817/k0s= =Uuu9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_PN5J/24f4ySKn+8--