Bug#840119: Cannot disable pdiffs

[Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>]

Thanks for that hint. Indeed, once I renamed the config fragment to 99disable-pdiffs, apt-config dump showed the expected result.

Given that you’re also a maintainer for apt-file, could you explain why apt-file enables pdiffs for these additional (?) files in the first place? Can it not just inherit the Acquire::PDiffs setting?

Thanks!

On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:

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 updateâ€
> (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

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Best regards,
Michael