on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:31:42AM -0400, Anita Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi.  I'm running woody and do apt-get upgrade weekly.  Why does it sometimes
> download something like 24Mb and only use something like 1.5Mb?  That is
> what is happening today and I've seen it quite often.

Possibly:  you're updating a package.  There are 24MBs to download, but
after replacing the existing package version, there's only a 1.5MB
delta.

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