Hi David, On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:35:39AM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > If apt detects that downloading the patches would be too wasteful > compared to just downloading the entire index (e.g. all patches needed > are combined bigger than the index itself) or that there are in fact no > patches to apply as it already has the latest file it will "fail" pdiff > and falls back to the normal index file acquire.
Thanks so much for your detailed response -- this is super helpful. It looks like a simple workaround for the time being (assuming you don't mind sacrificing pdiffs) is: echo 'Acquire::PDiffs "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local This has silenced all of our machines :) Thanks for your work on Debian! Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org