Michael Werneke wrote:
I recently discovered apt-get in Debian testing has been "upgraded" to
use .pdiff files.
If, like my system, an apt-get update now takes 3 or 4 times as long to
complete, you can use the following to turn it off.
apt-get update -o Acquire::PDiffs=false
I haven't really measured the difference, but using the .pdiffs is
supposed to reduce bandwidth usage, which should also reduce overall
time, no?
-Mike
It likely saves downloaded bits, yes.
But on my machine with my connection, processing all the .pdiff files is
slower(by quite a bit) than just downloading the whole package list.
I imagine on a dial-up connection it would save you some time usually
spend downloading.
-ajb
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