Proposal (was: should we split up the Packages file in main (for woody))
Hello
On Sun, 13.02.00 21:24 +0200, ressu@uusikaupunki.fi wrote:
> ok, lets face it.. the packages file in slink is something like <500K
> (in i386) in potato its >800K.. i think it might be time to start
> splitting it up...
Every entry in the packages line has a MD5sum entry. Why not taking this
as index and let apt-get ask only for new entries much like the way news
server check new articles against a history file.
Beneath the traditional monolithic "Packages" file we would have:
Packages.MD5/MD5sum.list.gz
Packages.MD5/base/ff5db5ca20eb40471cf623441e2c5d76
...
Packages.MD5/libs/ff7d539db6b9542172713bb1db4ca35f
...
Each directory would have about 50-100 files (current calculation for main).
The MD5sum.list would just be a `find` output, which would be of minimal
size.
The implentation work would probably be very small.
Comments?
bye,
-christian-
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