Urs Thuermann wrote: > For a couple of month I have seen an annoying change in behavior of > aptitude update and apt-get update. Formerly, a couple of package > files where downloaded which took a few seconds. Now I normally see > that aptitude update downloads hundreds of files named like > > Get:282 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [13.3kB] > Get:283 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [13.3kB] > Get:284 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [34.3kB] > Get:285 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [34.3kB] > Get:286 2006-09-11-1318.15.pdiff [34.3kB] > > and this takes quite long. From the name I guess these are only > differences two package files so that less data have to be > transferred. However, the overhead of nearly 300 TCP connections > causes this to take *much* longer on some systems than simply > downloading the whole package file.
Try putting this line in /etc/apt/apt.conf (creating the file if it doesn't already exist) to turn off pdiffs: Acquire::PDiffs "false"; I guess you can put it in a separate file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ instead if that directory exists on your system. Not sure why this isn't in the apt.conf(5) man page; maybe because it was just added recently. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
