On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 01:52:55AM +0100, iceWave IT wrote: > Ok here is the specific place: > > I've got blacklists, some with over 1 million entries, so the .deb > packages have a big size. > > Debdelta doesn't function good, because so the whole list would be > uninstalled and the new list installed. For all 2 million transactions > this needs lots of time. And I think there's no reason for deleting 9,999 > million entries to install them1 min later again. > > There for I'd like to write the "patch" in DEBIAN/postinst of the update > package (delete entry x y and z; add entry a b and c) What if a node misses an update, then? And what if it's not turned on for a month, or gets restored from an old backup? There's no way to tell how long back you're going to need. I'm afraid dpkg is not a good way to ship data like this. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ
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