Bug#213551: apt should support use of diffs in place of full packages
Package: apt
Severity: wishlist
Being stuck on a 57.6 dialup connection to the net, I find that keeping
up with Sid requires hours of downloading every night. Just doing
"apt-get update" requires a 3 meg download. In many cases, the updates
to packages are minor, meaning the new package is 99% identical to the
old one.
A good way to reduce the pain would be to enable apt to download diffs
in place of whole package files when the user already has a package
installed. It would also reduce the bandwidth demands on servers.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/dpkg: Permission denied
Kernel: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-k7 #1 Sat Sep 6 02:13:04 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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