On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 17:11 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jan 29, 2005, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net> wrote:
> How about having multiple repodatas, the base one and small
> incremental ones, the incremental ones containing also package
> cancelations? As a side effect this would also reduce download
> bandwidth and thus make even clients/users happy (not only repo
> maintainers).
+1. Heck, make it +2.
I agree with Axel, for a change :-)
How would it reduce bandwidth - you'd have to download and parse
multiple entries and you'd STILL have to do just a much work on the
repo-side b/c you'd have to check all the packages for changes.
-sv