+++ Anthony Towns [2014-01-04 20:40 +0800]: > Salut tout le monde, > > Some time ago (*cough* 2009), I had a play with working out how to > apply pdiffs more efficiently than apt currently does, and implemented > a proof of concept in python [0]. There weren't any replies (even a > "ooo, cool")
> Anyhoo... Like many, I've been getting annoyed at how tedious pdiff > application is over the past year, so over Christmas I thought I'd > have a go at patching apt to do things "properly". I've got it to the > point where it works now, and apt-get update reports things like: > > Fetched 199 MB in 50s (3919 kB/s) > > over a 50kB/s link when updating testing+unstable for i386+amd64 for a > day's worth of changes, rather than reporting 7000 B/s over a megabit > link. ooo, cool :-) (that will improve all our lives greatly) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140104131948.gp22...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
