Ansgar wrote: >Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> writes: >> AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get update >> download size by 3.6 MB. >> >> Also, it seems unlikely this will ever allow apt to skip downloading the >> English files, unless translations somehow get to, and stay at 100% > >Switching to xz compression would reduce the English translation from >3.7 MB to 3.3 MB. Maybe we could add support for this to APT and switch >later (so we don't need both bz2 and xz on the mirrors).
I did wonder about that when I added the debian-cd code to deal with translations. xz would probably make more sense, yes, but at the moment I've just hard-coded for bz2. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1rqima-0003ch...@mail.einval.com
