I wonder why Ubuntu's archive doesn't use pdiff as Debian does.
I looked around but I wasn't able to find any reason.
Can someone tell me something about?
ps. I don't like write too much ;P
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Dan Chen wrote:
> cf. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/28674
thanks, didn't catch that during my hunting...
But seems the discussion dropped without any serious motivation...
Shall we discuss it another time?
Just my 2 cents in support of the a
> From: mapr...@ubuntu.com
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:10:52 +0100
> Subject: Re: apt and pdiff files
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Dan Chen wrote:
> > cf. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/28674
>
> thanks, didn't catch that du
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 07:33:14PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> I wonder why Ubuntu's archive doesn't use pdiff as Debian does.
> I looked around but I wasn't able to find any reason.
>
> Can someone tell me something about?
There are claims (from 2008!) that pdiffs only make things slower:
htt
Hi,
I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until now
when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is not
packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of them
(ref 1).
What's the purpose of having those packages loose on the disk in
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:26:26PM -0500, Tong Sun wrote:
> I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until now
> when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is not
> packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of them
> (ref 1).
>
>
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:10:52PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 2) maybe we can change dinstall crontab to run every 2 hours, it's not
> such a loss from my point of view
Um, no. We're trending towards making the publisher more frequent, not
less; it's incredibly useful when you're trying to it
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:52:04PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> There are claims (from 2008!) that pdiffs only make things slower:
> http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/09/01/pdiffs-1.html
apt recently saw some significant improvements to pdiff performance.
Posts from 2008 are unlikely to be appli
On 02/17/2014 04:26 PM, Tong Sun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until
> now when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is
> not packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of
> them (ref 1).
>
> What'
