Binary diffs for deb files

[James Hall]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 21:01 +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
> In any case, checksums and deltas should be based on the actual
> content,
> not the compressed representation of it. 

I can see where you're coming from. My thinking is to have the deltas
based on the uncompressed content, but maintain the checksum of the
compressed representation (which I have achieved). This allows us to use
the existing code for checking signatures.

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 21:01 +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
> Maybe it would be possible to have clients sync directly against VCS
> repositories, using proxies for compressed cache. mirrors could be
> implemented as VCS proxies, couldn't they?

The mirrors shouldn't be forced to do anything different than they do
now. The solution just needs to be implemented in client-side logic and
repo management scripts.