Bug#840119: Cannot disable pdiffs

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 14:15:27 +0200 Michael Stapelberg
<stapelberg@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Recently (sorry, I don’t know with which version precisely), I have
> noticed that apt acquires pdiffs when running “sudo apt-get update”
> (yes, I have updated my aliases to prefer apt over apt-get for the
> future).
> 
> Since pdiffs make updates way slower in my setup, I have pdiffs disabled
> on all my machines using:
> 
> $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/06disable-pdiffs 
> Acquire::Pdiffs "no";
> 
> However, that does not seem to be enough. I’ve tried explicitly
> disabling all options containing “pdiff”, but disabling the
> Acquire::IndexTargets::*::PDiffs options doesn’t seem to work at all:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Am I running into a bug, or am I doing something wrong? If the latter,
> what is the correct way to disable pdiffs once and for all? Thanks.
> 
> [...]

Hi,

Are you aware that the most of the Acquire::IndexTargets::*::PDiffs are
enabled in "50apt-file.conf", so it would have precedence over yours
(given you use 06).  Perhaps try bumping your config file to
"60disable-pdiffs.conf".


Thanks,
~Niels