Provide pdiffs for apt-get update
Bug #214612 reported by
Johan Kiviniemi
This bug affects 12 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Raspbian |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Debian has been using pdiffs for apt-get update for a while now. Instead of downloading megabytes of package lists when a tiny part has changed, a number of diffs are downloaded and applied to the local package lists. That makes apt-get update faster for the end user and possibly much cheaper for the mirrors.
Ubuntu repositories do not provide pdiffs and apt in Ubuntu doesn’t try to download them by default.
While we’re waiting for https:/
Changed in launchpad: | |
importance: | Medium → Low |
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I'm also interested in this. Currently an "apt-get update" having just the "deb" lines for current release and a "deb-src" for the development release can take over 5 minutes here using a 3G connection.