@matthew: Thanks for pointing that out :) much appreciated
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> staticd wrote on 02/03/14 04:50:
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> > Is this and EWONTFIX or a EBUSY? it will be nice if responses to
> > queries clearl
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staticd wrote on 02/03/14 04:50:
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> Is this and EWONTFIX or a EBUSY? it will be nice if responses to
> queries clearly distinguish between the two. ;)
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"I'd like us to do pdiffs, but there's a bit of a shortage of
implementation time" seems
Is this and EWONTFIX or a EBUSY? it will be nice if responses to queries
clearly distinguish between the two. ;)
It is kinda disheartening to new enthusiasts and developers when we say
"it's only that we are too busy" or "write it yourself and come back" and
then do an about face and say
"no we ne
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> Um, no. We're trending towards making the publisher more frequent, not
> less; it's incredibly useful when you're trying to iterate quickly on
> deep build stacks and suchlike.
ok, that's fine.
> I'd like us to do pdiffs, but there's a bit
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 appli
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 it
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:
htt
> 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
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> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Dan Chen wrote:
> > cf. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/28674
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Dan Chen 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 in support of the a
