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vova7890

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 11

Who can help to live, or slow internet and large packages

I have slow internet(mobile gprs 10 kBytes/s). Updating packages like "kde-wallpapers" or "kdeartwork-wallpapers" take a long time despite the fact that the contents of the package no major changes. If you do a binary diff, for example on the "oxygen-icons" you can only download about ~300 kilobytes. Can support in the pacman binary diffs of packages, and on the server generating diff`s of these files by utility xdelta3? Or make it a separate utility (such as yaourt) which will download the differences and generate packets, and pacman will install it.

Who now cant help me, please generate diffs(from testing kde 4.9)

xdelta3 -e -s /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kde-wallpapers-4.8.4-1-any.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kde-wallpapers-4.9.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz kde-wallpapers-4.9.1-1-any.delta

xdelta3 -e -s /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdeartwork-wallpapers-4.8.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdeartwork-wallpapers-4.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.tar.xz kdeartwork-wallpapers-4.9.1-1-any.delta

pacman wont download 174,46 MiB %)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Who can help to live, or slow internet and large packages

You should search before asking:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92085
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors#France

You might reconsider your choice of distro - IMO Arch needs reliable and plentiful bandwidth,

Last edited by tomk (2012-08-03 09:33:04)

vova7890

Member

Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 11

Re: Who can help to live, or slow internet and large packages

You might reconsider your choice of distro - IMO Arch needs reliable and plentiful bandwidth,

Previously, I had a 100 Mbps channel. Moved to another house, now have only gprs. I do not want to change the distribution, and not on that. I think many people have slow internet and problem like my.

>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors#France

Thank you very much. It surprise for me

Last edited by vova7890 (2012-08-03 09:47:14)