| Thiemo Seufer 2004-07-04, 8:15 am |
| Robert Collins wrote:
[snip]
>
> I presume you mean deltas with an aggregate size > than the current
> Packages ?
Exactly.
>
> I don't think that adding the file size forces apt-get to make any
> assumptions about update frequency.
This was a general remark about the format described above. :-)
> But it does allow more client side
> optimisations in the future. (There are more factors than raw size to
> consider - round trips, processing overhead etc.
Er, which one exactly? For round trip time, we should keep the size
of the index file small, because it has to be fetched instead of the
Packages file timestamp, even for unsuccessful (already-updated)
attempts.
> Giving the client the
> info to optimise as needed in the future makes sense to me)
But we optimize for low server load. The client load is mostly
irrelevant.
Thiemo
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