Why does Bazaar download so much data for a small change?

[Russel Winder]

Colin,

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 08:06 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:

> I apologize if this is a silly question (Ubuntu isn't my primary Linux
> distro (yet)), but isn't that what the nice package manager/update
> system is for?  Why can't Ubuntu simply provide an updated bzr package
> through the package management system between releases?  Or, does
> Ubuntu only do security patches between releases?

The Bazaar development team have the Launchpad PPA repository
(https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/ppa) in which the latest release of
some of the bits and pieces of Bazaar can be found.  If you have this
repository in your /etc/apt/source.list then the package managers pick
up the latest release version that is actually released for a given
version of Ubuntu.

> I use Gentoo primarily, so I'm not used to concept of OS "releases"; I
> just have the latest packages available at any point in time.

This only works for a distro which is source package based, which rules
Ubuntu out.

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