APT-GET Results = Strange

carlosinfl · 06-13-2006, 11:17 AM

Has anyone noticed these .pdiff's when using APT-GET? Can anyone explain this to me? I have never seen them before.

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:~$ su
Password:
cwilliams:/home/cwilliams# apt-get update
Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org etch Release.gpg [189B]
Get: 2 http://ftp.debian.org etch Release [35.4kB]
Get: 3 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get: 4 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release [20.0kB]
Get: 5 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex [12.6kB]
Get: 6 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex [12.5kB]
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Get: 7 2006-06-12-1402.36.pdiff [13.6kB]
Get: 8 2006-06-12-1402.36.pdiff [13.6kB]
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Get: 9 2006-06-12-1402.36.pdiff [13.6kB]
Get: 10 2006-06-12-1402.36.pdiff [8542B]
Get: 11 2006-06-12-1402.36.pdiff [8542B]
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Get: 12 2006-06-12-1402.36.pdiff [8542B]
Fetched 103kB in 3s (31.1kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Daws · 06-13-2006, 12:21 PM

Looks like a more efficient way to download package lists. I haven't actually booted debian in a while so I haven't noticed it. I imagine the pdiffs provide the differences between package lists, kinda like a patch, rather than downloading the newer package lists whole (this for me would be about 10 Mb). Which is alot less to download, better for us and the debian servers.

fastTalker · 06-17-2006, 02:45 AM

the pdiff's show up if i've added a new repo and not retreived the public key for it yet. odd.