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Bug#840119: Cannot disable pdiffs



On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 02:15:27PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg 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:

Are you running everything from a super hyper fast on-site mirror? Otherwise
I can't believe that statement. PDiffs are tiny, and apply at an incredible
speed, in parallel. And with 1.3, PDiffs are mostly applied while other
indexes are downloading (if any).

In any case make sure to time things. Depending on the repository, pdiff
in 1.3 is much faster than before, and the 1.2 pdiff is already much faster
than the 1.1...

Apart from that, see what Niels said. Site-local settings are best
stored in files starting with 99 IMO.

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