Re: These new diffs are great, but...
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:43:45 -0700, Tyler MacDonald <tyler@yi.org>
wrote:
>Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> I usually notice the difference -- the other way. "aptitude update" on a
>> machine that hasn't been updated in a while suddenly takes minutes instead of
>> seconds...
>
> Yes, this is what I'm getting at. :-) Should this be considered a
>bug in apt-get (file:// urls should never use diffs)?
file:// URLs are not the only issue here - aptitude update is also
much slower than before on a hosted box which has 100 Mbit/s
connectivity and could load the Packages.gz in, like, two seconds.
Greetings
Marc
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