I always thought this was a mangled/truncated word.
Please use something else, this doesn't mean anything.
I thought it was a typo of "read" >.>
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I suggest that we rename 'rred' to 'apply-pdiff'.
If that is a suitable solution, I can try to implement it.
(I honestly found it quite surprising, nearly scary, that apt was printing
this non-word. It made me suspicious that an attacker had compromised my
machine. Not super rational of me, bu
Incremental apt updates use "ed" style diffs. i.e. the pdiff is a script
suitable for feeding into the "ed" line editor. Conventionally there is also
a "restricted" versions of ed called "red" which implements only a "safe"
subset of ed commands. Apt includes a partial (Reduced/even more Restric
Hey,
it seems that rred is actually some extraction or patching method, since
locate reveals /usr/lib/apt/methods/rred to exist. Also, various other bug
reports talk about rred'ing as if it is something to do with downloaded
pdiffs. Still, I would suggest something like "Extracted" or "Processed",
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.2
Followup-For: Bug #383853
My guess is that it is just the word 'transferred' that got truncated.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Ess
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.45
Severity: minor
Searching google on rred reveals that it is a method of some sort, but
I cannot find an explanation documented anywhere. The word does not
appear in any of the apt documentation that I can find.
It does however show up in the user interface when downl
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