Re: Proposal (was: should we split up the Packages file in main (for woody))

[ressu@uusikaupunki.fi]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:44:16PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
> 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.

i don't quite follow you, do you mean to split the Packages file, like in the original proposal, or some other way. 

because i have to admit, you lost me now... =)
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