http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10178/
In Fedora package manager, Yum, there is a plugin called Presto. It downloads only changed part of package (since last update) in special kind of RPM (package format used by Fedora) - Delta RPM. We can develop something similar to Presto.

To do this, we will have to modify APT and create new, special repositories with special DEBs. Yes, we will need some time to do this but I think it will be worth it!

Sorry for my terrible English. I'm from Poland.

[256 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #10178


]]> en-us Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:10:42 +0000 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:06:27 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10178/ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:49:48 +0000 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:38:03 +0000 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:49:38 +0000 Downloading updates at 5-9 mbyte/s is great.]]> Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:52:03 +0000 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:25:52 +0000 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:44:47 +0000 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:52:14 +0000 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:08:45 +0000 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:50:09 +0000
@master5o1: Delta RPM -> DRPM ;-)

@gmatht: Look when was this page updated - 2 years ago. Following the links took me to page which was updated year ago.

@fordplay: Partial DEBs and BitTorrent downloads? Looks nice - updates in a few seconds...]]> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:34:37 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13/

Please check for dupes next time.. ]]> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:19:50 +0000 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:29:01 +0000 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:26:13 +0000
For example my last update contained 37 packages and whole process took 15 minutes. Great, isn't it :) ?]]> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:08:37 +0000 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:14:31 +0000 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:37:02 +0000 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:01:35 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13/

Its status is "Pending Approval"]]> Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:06:27 +0000