>> Sometime when I run the "update" command ('u'), I see what
>> appears to be new info (last time about 500kB) for the DB being
>> transfered. Yet, when the display is redrawn, neither new nor
>> updated packages are listed.
fe> Updating the Package and Release file is more in the 3 MB order
fe> of magnitude.
Yes, that's what I normally see ... maybe closer to 4 MB?
I sure wish just those files -- not the package files themselves --
could be obtained using 'rsync'. Why reload them in their entirety
each time when they normally have few changes? [ Some of you might
recall that my home system is on a *slow* dialup line ...]
My previous investigations have shown that the "'rsync' issue" has been
discussed before and created a small "war". But those discussions had
*everything* using 'rsync'. I would just like the "package and
release" files to use it. Ftp would be find for the .deb's ...
>> What is really going on here? My theory is that there *are*
>> updates, but only to programs that I don't have installed ...
fe> This is one possibility, but recently this might rather stem
fe> from the testing migration scripts ("britney") being
fe> broken. AFAIK the bug has been found and testing migration
fe> should run again now.
Ah, hadn't known about that! I did notice, however, that the "shorter"
(500kB) transfers only started occurring recently.
Thanks, Florian, for your comments!
-Kenneth