For a couple of month I have seen an annoying change in behavior of
aptitude update and apt-get update. Formerly, a couple of package
files where downloaded which took a few seconds. Now I normally see
that aptitude update downloads hundreds of files named like
Get:282 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [13.3kB]
Get:283 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [13.3kB]
Get:284 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [34.3kB]
Get:285 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [34.3kB]
Get:286 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [34.3kB]
and this takes quite long. From the name I guess these are only
differences two package files so that less data have to be
transferred. However, the overhead of nearly 300 TCP connections
causes this to take *much* longer on some systems than simply
downloading the whole package file.
urs
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