Bug#458663: Missing support for data.tar.bz2-based debs
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:38:37PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >>On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:38:51PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >>>Personally, I'd like to know what is the increase on space and
> >>>memory for adding bzcat on busybox-udeb. However, as said in
> >>>another mail, I see no point to support different set of features
> >>>on installed and d-i environments (from debootstrap POV).
>
> It could actually improve the space situation in the installer if it
> allowed some packages to be compressed smaller than their present size.
The worst (and most relevant here) constraint is on initrd size, and
that is unaffected by .deb size.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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