apt.conf CompressionTypes

[Chuck Peters]

While upgrading a slow 233MHz machine I noticed the changelog says we can
now prefer less CPU intensive compression of the deb packages.

apt (0.7.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * Already included in the last version but now with better documentation
    is the possibility to add/prefer different compression types while
    downloading archive informations, which can decrease the time needed for
    update on slow machines. See apt.conf (5) manpage for details.


I did a little googling, reading man pages and greping files and it's not
clear to me how I should implement this feature or if it would do any good.


Should I just put the "Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order { "lzma"; "gz"; };"
in any /etc/apt/apt.con.d/file?

Are the ubuntu archives setup to allow this compression preference?


Thanks,
Chuck
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