Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities
* David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>, 2015-12-06, 13:01:
APT 1.1 is pretty clever in figuring out if a file was changed and for
the 'giant' Contents files it actually benefitial to run the update
more often as that means it can use the small PDiff files (a few KB
each) to patch up a previous version of the file instead of downloading
the entire file (~30 MB) again (as it would happen after ~2 weeks
without an update)…
This works perfectly for binary packages' Contents, but (at least on my
machine) APT downloads whole Contents-source every time.
There's clearly a bug somewhere (APT? dak?), but I don't have time to
debug it further. I very rarely need Contents-source anyway, so I just
disabled it in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf.
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Jakub Wilk
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