Hello,
I don't keep my Debian testing uptodate and it's a fact than the pdiff
method is really longer. After few days (a week ?) make a day-by-day
summary is more expansive than get directly the new Packages file ;
after a month it's catastrophic.
It is possible to disable the pdiff files
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 02:52 +0100, Aurélien Le Provost - Ribaltchenko
wrote:
It is possible to disable the pdiff files with:
apt-get update -o Acquire::PDiffs=false
I have disabled Apt's pdiff feature for now.
Can I ask you if you do this on the command line each time (or with an
Am 2006-06-11 11:20:47, schrieb Mike Hommey:
PS: Is there a way to totally disable the pdiff stuff ? With decent
bandwidth, it actually takes more times than downloading the full file...
(Or is the goal to reduce the bandwitdh on the server side ?)
AFAIK on the Server side and for peoples
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Maybe I'm wrong but I asked some apt maintainer before how the
downloading works. It should fetch the index, find all the patches
needed from the old Packages file to the current one and then fire off
all the donwlods together using the http keep-alive option. There
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:20:47AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.44
Severity: wishlist
Thanks for your bugreport.
When you don't apt-get update for a while, downloading all the pdiffs
instead of the full file is actually much longer. There should be a limit
of days
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.44
Severity: wishlist
When you don't apt-get update for a while, downloading all the pdiffs
instead of the full file is actually much longer. There should be a limit
of days without update after which apt would get the full file and not the
pdiffs.
PS: Is there a way
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.44
Severity: wishlist
When you don't apt-get update for a while, downloading all the pdiffs
instead of the full file is actually much longer. There should be a limit
of days without update after which apt would get the full
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:29:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.44
Severity: wishlist
When you don't apt-get update for a while, downloading all the pdiffs
instead of the full file is actually
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:29:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.44
Severity: wishlist
When you don't apt-get update for a while, downloading all the
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