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When I syncronise the package database, e.g. during a `sudo pacman -Syu` it is obvious that full database files are being downloaded from the servers.
This seems wasteful, is there a way to receive just the diffs? e.g. by having these files git-managed rather than full file downloads.
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`du -sh /var/lib/pacman/sync/` gives me 5.6M, really not so wasteful.
This silver ladybug at line 28...
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It's a 5M download if anything changes, even one package. On my internet connection, that is quite significant and often more than the packages that ultimately get upgraded.
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man pacman.conf | less -p delta
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man pacman.conf | less -p delta
This is perfect, thank you!
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Except... I don't think deltas have ever worked fro databases. Only packages (and only on a mirror or two that enables them...).
The only real solution here is to update less frequently, so that you end up with the repo do being a low percentage of your total update downloads.
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Except... I don't think deltas have ever worked fro databases. Only packages (and only on a mirror or two that enables them...).
The only real solution here is to update less frequently, so that you end up with the repo do being a low percentage of your total update downloads.
Yeah, you're right. This doesn't delta the repository contents :-(
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