<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>> From: mapreri@ubuntu.com<br>> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:10:52 +0100<br>> Subject: Re: apt and pdiff files<br>> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> <br>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Dan Chen <email address hidden> wrote:<br>> > cf. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/28674<br>> <br>> thanks, didn't catch that during my hunting...<br>> <br>> But seems the discussion dropped without any serious motivation...<br>> Shall we discuss it another time?<br>> <br>> Just my 2 cents in support of the adoption of pdiff:<br>> 1) archive for stable release doesn't change so often, pdiff will became useful<br>> 2) maybe we can change dinstall crontab to run every 2 hours, it's not<br>> such a loss from my point of view<br>> 3) with my not-so-fast connection download ~20 MB of archive is slower<br>> than all debian pdiffs for ~5 days delta.<br>> <br>> Let's see if anyone else is interested in this.</div><div><br></div><div>I have Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty).</div><div>I run apt-get update and every time it dowloads around 14 mb!!</div><div>And I check and there are the same files! There are 2 bigs of ~6mb and other of ~5mb.</div><div><br></div><div>Related to this I found this bug that was closed.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1001780" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1001780</a></div><div><br></div><div>But I add a comment:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1001780/comments/20/" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1001780/comments/20/</a></div><div><br>> <br>> --<br>> regards,<br>> Mattia Rizzolo<br>> <br>> GPG Key: 4096R/B9444540 http://goo.gl/I8TMB<br>> more about me: http://mapreri.org<br>> Launchpad User: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri<br>> Ubuntu Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MattiaRizzolo<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list<br>> Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss<br></div> </div></body> </html>