[email protected] writes:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.9.2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Maybe there should be a mechanism to detect when just getting a fresh
> Packages file would be faster than all the pdiffs, seen here after
> returning from a one week vacation:
No. Or rather the pdiff mechanism should be fixed to fetch all the
needed pdiff files concurrently and apply them in a single
pass. Alternatively the pdiff files could just not be made incremental
but that would modify them all on every update.
For a solution that works now:
Acquire::PDiffs::FileLimit "4"; // don't use diffs if we would need more than 4
diffs
You might argue about setting a suitable default for this based on
common network / cpu speeds.
MfG
Goswin
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