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Bug#425392: marked as done (Highly dubious pdiff download rate and size reporting)

Your message dated Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:22:52 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #425392,
regarding Highly dubious pdiff download rate and size reporting
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.4-4
Severity: minor

Running aptitude in curses mode, I initiate an update (with 'u').
aptitude then starts to download indexes; when it starts downloading
pdiffs, it gives some highly dubious status reporting. I get a status
line of the form:

Packages [6381kB/0B]

the former size (currently downloaded) increases rapidly, usually up to
a nominal:

Packages [14.7MB/0B]

This rate is much higher than my internet connection could support, and
is higher than the size of any individual pdiff.

mentor

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Hi,

> Running aptitude in curses mode, I initiate an update (with 'u').
> aptitude then starts to download indexes; when it starts downloading
> pdiffs, it gives some highly dubious status reporting. I get a status
> line of the form:
>
> Packages [6381kB/0B]

The status line does not indicate download progress in that case. The
download is already done at that moment. What it is reporting is how far
it is in patching a Packages file (in that case). Those are rather
large (back in 2007 already, but now even more) so that is why it is
going up to ~30MB nowadays. So in that case, it isn't a prediction, but
real data.

Its a well kept secret, but predictions are hard & what you see in
'apt-get update' flying by is mostly there so that users see that
something is happening.

Anyway, as this bugreport seems to be a misunderstand
I am closing it as not a bug.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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