Re: Unusual errors during apt-get update
On 2025-09-14 01:12:07 +0300, monodev wrote:
> It has been pointed out in the Reddit thread by the user notR1CH that these
> messages are not really errors, but are caused by apt deciding to download
> the whole file instead of the patch once the ratio of the size of the patch
> vs the whole file exceeds a certain threshold (as determined by the
> "Acquire::PDiffs::SizeLimit" configuration variable). Specifically this
> calculation is done in the function named "pkgAcqDiffIndex::ParseDiffIndex"
> in file "acquire-item.cc", which has the following comment:
>
> // failing here is fine: our caller will take care of trying to
> // get the complete file if patching fails
>
> Link to the comment:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1ndt5wp/comment/ndr66v7/
>
> As such it seems to me that this is not really an error and can be
> disregarded.
If this is not an error, this should not be reported to the end user.
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