When using an https: connection, apt-get does not properly reuse connections. Because https setup costs can be quite high, this can cause much slowdown when, for example, many different distributions on the same server need to be checked.
I believe the attached patch addresses the difficulty.
When using an https: connection, apt-get does not properly reuse connections. Because https setup costs can be quite high, this can cause much slowdown when, for example, many different distributions on the same server need to be checked.
I believe the attached patch addresses the difficulty.