[SOLVED] Repository sync: How to reduce download size of 'apt-get update'?

delgado · 2024-10-26 21:05:44

Hi,
I'm running excalibur on a amd64 computer with i386 achitechture enabled (to play old games). Additionally, some packages from ceres and daedalus are installed too. 'deb-src' repositories are commented-in on occasion, not permanently.

This resulted not seldom in having +100 MB to download just for syncing the repositories.

A reasonable reduction was archived by "i386 packages are installed from excalibur, all other repositories can be fixed to amd64". 'sources.list' looks as follows:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur                      main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# virtualbox, nomacs
deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres             main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# lxde-gtk2 - lxpannel-gtk3 doesn't work
deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus          main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates  main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# kpackage
deb [arch=amd64] http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb excalibur deps-r14 main-r14

What else can be done (or excluded or specified) to further reduce the download when apt is syncing?

Thanks for any input and regards.

EDIT 2024-Oct-30:
Decided to use "daedalus main" and "ceres main contrib" as a further reduction. And closing the topic.

Last edited by delgado (2024-10-30 22:11:26)

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn · 2024-10-27 11:07:00

food for thought:

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=722708#p722708

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#1 2024-10-26 21:05:44

[SOLVED] Repository sync: How to reduce download size of 'apt-get update'?

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Re: [SOLVED] Repository sync: How to reduce download size of 'apt-get update'?

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