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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by julian-klode on Monday December 28, 2015 @06:59PM (#10804257)
You don't really need cumulative diffs anymore. Sure, they would be nice to have, but with pipelining and client-side merging of the patches before applying, things are not that much slower.
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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by julian-klode on Friday January 08, 2016 @05:24PM (#10868781)
I have to take that back. For Contents-Source, it's ugly. The rest is fine though.
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