On 2006-09-28 Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get update is still very verbose about the pdiff updates:
> [about 300 lines with "Get: ..."] > Get:334 2006-09-26-1322.12.pdiff [10.7kB] > Get:335 2006-09-26-1322.12.pdiff [10.7kB] [...] > if i didn't run 'apt-get update' for some weeks, i get hundreds of > lines, three lines for each pdiff file. I hope that the verbosity > will be reduced before etch is released. AOL! > I would also love to see some some automatics in apt to download the > full Packages file when pdiffs for more than, lets say two weeks > would be needed instead. > While load on system and network is reduced for frequent apt-get > update runs with pdiff support, it increases for infrequent updates. Hello, I disagree with the "two weeks". Two weeks of pdiff is currently 500 KB to 1 MB for sid/main. Even the complete set of pdiffs available on the mirrors ftp.at.d.o or ftp.de.d.o currently[1] (July 3rd - September 29th) is *smaller* than Packages.bz2 for sid/main. 3,362,469 versus 4,376,619. Therefore using all available diffs is the correct choice when minimizing download volume is the priority. OTOH if your internet connection is free and fast, switching off pdiffs if you only run apt-get update every third date is probably faster than using pdiffs. cu andreas [1] ftp.d.o carries pdiffs back to the beginning of June, which are indeed bigger than Packages.gz (about 7 MB), I do not know why. - All /mirrors/ I checked (de, uk, at, cz, au) only carried three months. -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute tacit approval by the author or the publisher for any such projects, howsoever undertaken. (c) Jasper Ffforde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
