Linux updates painfully slow

[FreewheelinFrank]

Updates in Linux are taking an eternity- in fact, I just give up.

Any reason for this?

Any hope of incremental updates?

[Lisandro]

They've promised they will try to develop... but I don't think we'll see it (incremental update) very soon.
Indeed, it's taking a lot of time... we need patience...

[.: Mac :.]

FwF, Both The Linux and Mac versions download th Full VPS file (400.vps) on each update, Incremental update are coming eventually in future versions

[igor]

I believe (zilog would have more info for sure) that the incremental updates already work in the internal builds (actually, I thought that the Mac beta already includes it, but since it's just the engine, not the program itself, I'm probably wrong?) - so it should be released really soon.

(Not only are the full updates slow for the users, they also consume a lot of bandwidth on our side - so you can believe me this issue is not ignored here.)

[zilog]

FwF, Both The Linux and Mac versions download th Full VPS file (400.vps) on each update, Incremental update are coming eventually in future versions

Hallo,
incremental updates are ready, and I already offered a testing package months ago (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=37582.0).
Because there's at the moment no Linux-dedicated infrastructure on our download servers, this testing binary pretends to be Avast Pro .

let's check it - if you are bothered by downloading updates in non-incremental way, the binary from the testing package will do this for you in an incremental way.

as igor wrote, the first *NIX product with incremental updates will be the forthcoming Mac version. The core was already released, is capable of incremental updates, but when plugged (in this testing stage) to the old version, this feature won't be utilized yet.

regards,
pc