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On Tuesday 29 July 2003 18:45, John Whitney wrote: |
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> The space requirements are dynamic - they can be scaled to any level |
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> desired. We don't need patches for every package. This is accomplished by |
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> knowing which patches are available before trying to download them. You |
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> can provide a significant number of patches with just 100MB of space. Take |
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> a look at my demo repository: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/deltup/patchfiles. |
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> All these patches take under 50MB and are still not fully optimized (newer |
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> patches will be about 33% more efficient). It'd be great to start out with |
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> patches for kernel, kde, gnome, gcc, mozilla, and some other big and |
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> necessary packages. Remember, there are a lot of dial-up users out there |
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> (some with only one phone line! :O :) ) A quota based system would be |
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> fine... |
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You also might want to use download figures from a used mirror (not the |
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failsafe that is last in the list) to see which patches are actually wanted |
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by the userbase. If no-one downloads a certain patch that would signal the |
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time has come to remove it. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv |
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