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- Subject: Highly dubious pdiff download rate and size reporting
- From: Matthew William Solloway Bell <matthew@bells23.org.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 02:36:39 +0100
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Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: minor Running aptitude in curses mode, I initiate an update (with 'u'). aptitude then starts to download indexes; when it starts downloading pdiffs, it gives some highly dubious status reporting. I get a status line of the form: Packages [6381kB/0B] the former size (currently downloaded) increases rapidly, usually up to a nominal: Packages [14.7MB/0B] This rate is much higher than my internet connection could support, and is higher than the size of any individual pdiff. mentorAttachment: signature.asc
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- Subject: Re: Highly dubious pdiff download rate and size reporting
- From: David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:22:52 +0100
- Message-id: <20140211212252.GC5697@crossbow>
Hi, > Running aptitude in curses mode, I initiate an update (with 'u'). > aptitude then starts to download indexes; when it starts downloading > pdiffs, it gives some highly dubious status reporting. I get a status > line of the form: > > Packages [6381kB/0B] The status line does not indicate download progress in that case. The download is already done at that moment. What it is reporting is how far it is in patching a Packages file (in that case). Those are rather large (back in 2007 already, but now even more) so that is why it is going up to ~30MB nowadays. So in that case, it isn't a prediction, but real data. Its a well kept secret, but predictions are hard & what you see in 'apt-get update' flying by is mostly there so that users see that something is happening. Anyway, as this bugreport seems to be a misunderstand I am closing it as not a bug. Best regards David KalnischkiesAttachment: signature.asc
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