On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:35:09PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Someone could make stats to calculate the average day-count x when the > summ of the pdiffs becomes larger that the package-files. Then aptitude > (or apt-get) could decide whether the last update is more than x days > away and decide what to use. it might be easier to just generate fewer diffs on the server side, if there is no matching diff available apt will fall back to using the standard method. you will however find out that the size of all diffs together is already less than the size of the regular packages file. disabling diffs for file/cdrom urls makes perfect sense imho... cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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