Bug#671440: pdiffs
On 2013-06-15 01:11, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
>> > But this is entirely outweighed by the times they have massively slowed
>> > down updates when I do have bandwidth available to burn. And if I have
> The time required /should/ get down if we can finally merge pdiffs before
> applying them as the current process of applying pdiffs one after the other
> (and doing a http roundtrip for each file rather than pipeline) is wasteful.
> To support the current mode of operation (aka: being able to skip over
> patches) we need changes to the format of the Index though.
>
> Its a frequent topic and my last info on this is that we get the changes to
> the Index "really soon now" (okay, actually, it was "tommorrow", but that
> is a few weeks ago now). After that either someone else will pick it up
> quickly or I will hopefully come around to look at it as I tend to be on
> connections which are payed by transferred data volume at times …
>
>
Indeed, I was expecting it to have happened a while back, but so far the
patches do not appear to have been merged. CC'ing Gergely who were
working on the "dark^Wdak side" of this improvement. :)
~Niels
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