On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 10:12 -0400, celejar wrote: > On 12 Sep 2006 14:56:11 +0200, Urs Thuermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > I've been bitten by this also. They recently upgraded apt to download > diffs instead of the entire package list each time. I suppose if one > does apt-get update every day the new system is more efficient, but on > my dialup system where I only update when I need to install something > new, I have the same issue as you.
Perhaps for your dialup connection this is worse, but for one I have it is better. I would much much rather download 10 files that are 30kB each than the single package list that is 4MB. If only there weren't so many pdiff files to download sometimes... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
