apt and pdiff files

2014-02-17 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
I wonder why Ubuntu's archive doesn't use pdiff as Debian does. I looked around but I wasn't able to find any reason. Can someone tell me something about? ps. I don't like write too much ;P -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 4096R/B9444540 http://goo.gl/I8TMB more about me:

Re: apt and pdiff files

2014-02-17 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Dan Chen email address hidden wrote: cf. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/28674 thanks, didn't catch that during my hunting... But seems the discussion dropped without any serious motivation... Shall we discuss it another time? Just my 2 cents

RE: apt and pdiff files

2014-02-17 Thread Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
From: mapr...@ubuntu.com Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:10:52 +0100 Subject: Re: apt and pdiff files To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Dan Chen email address hidden wrote: cf. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/28674 thanks, didn't

Re: apt and pdiff files

2014-02-17 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 07:33:14PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: I wonder why Ubuntu's archive doesn't use pdiff as Debian does. I looked around but I wasn't able to find any reason. Can someone tell me something about? There are claims (from 2008!) that pdiffs only make things slower:

Re: Those extra packages on the live CD

2014-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:26:26PM -0500, Tong Sun wrote: I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until now when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is not packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of them (ref 1).

Re: apt and pdiff files

2014-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:10:52PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: 2) maybe we can change dinstall crontab to run every 2 hours, it's not such a loss from my point of view Um, no. We're trending towards making the publisher more frequent, not less; it's incredibly useful when you're trying to

Re: apt and pdiff files

2014-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:52:04PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: There are claims (from 2008!) that pdiffs only make things slower: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/09/01/pdiffs-1.html apt recently saw some significant improvements to pdiff performance. Posts from 2008 are unlikely to be

Re: Those extra packages on the live CD

2014-02-17 Thread John Moser
On 02/17/2014 04:26 PM, Tong Sun wrote: Hi, I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until now when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is not packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of them (ref 1). What's the