Bug#372712: apt: Shouldn't download pdiffs in all cases

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:20:47AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.44
> Severity: wishlist

Thanks for your bugreport. 
 
> When you don't apt-get update for a while, downloading all the pdiffs
> instead of the full file is actually much longer. There should be a limit
> of days without update after which apt would get the full file and not the
> pdiffs.
[..]

Currently the implementation will not limit the number of fetched
pdiff files. This is certainly a interessting option. 

> PS: Is there a way to totally disable the pdiff stuff ? With decent
> bandwidth, it actually takes more times than downloading the full file...
> (Or is the goal to reduce the bandwitdh on the server side ?)

It is possible to disable the pdiff files with:
apt-get update -o Acquire::PDiffs=false

Cheers,
 Michael

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