Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:35:41PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> Not really. pdiff's mainly reduce download size for low bandwidth >> connections. file:// is pretty high bandwidth, you won't notice the >> difference. > > I usually notice the difference -- the other way. "aptitude update" on a > machine that hasn't been updated in a while suddenly takes minutes instead of > seconds...
Same here. Very annoying on a box where you only update every few weeks or something. Wouldn't it be possible to make snapshots every week and only pdiff from this snapshot? Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
