Archive for February, 2006
apt-cacher transparent proxying
apt-cacher is a really neat program which caches debian downloads. Very useful when you look after a few debian boxes and brilliant when you are doing automated installs.
However I’ve never used apt-cacher at home since it requires you to edit your sources.list file and then it wouldn’t work when I was somewhere without apt-cacher.
Well, [...]
Posted: February 12th, 2006 under Linux.
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FuseFS and xdelta/rsync
Whilst at work today I had a cunning plan, have a look at FuseFS and maybe implement a “diff” filesystem. I was originally thinking of rsync diffs (see rsync’s batch mode), but xdelta is probably an easier first fit (and would possibly work better).
There’s even Ruby bindings for FuseFS so I could [...]
Posted: February 8th, 2006 under Idea, Linux.
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