Marcel Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I saw this "problem" also for quite a long time now. I always wondered > if it was my proxy having problems with the files. But about the size > of the files I would definitely disagree: The biggest file is 1.7 MB > together with all the others it's about 2.5 MB if I am not wrong. Ok, > via DSL this takes only a glimpse. But via modem it would be very > anoying downloading package descriptions for seeing that nothing had > changed. On the other hand, this will cause also a lot of traffic:
You're deluded. The size of the biggest file is 93 bytes; the total traffic is 873 bytes. Thomas becket:/home/tb# apt-get update Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release [81B] Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Packages Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release [84B] Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Packages Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Release [85B] Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Sources Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release [83B] Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Sources Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release [86B] Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Packages Get:6 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Release [88B] Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Packages Get:7 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Release [91B] Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Packages Get:8 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Release [92B] Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Sources Get:9 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Release [90B] Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Sources Get:10 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Release [93B] Fetched 873B in 0s (999B/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
