On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:27:05PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes: >> >> We're planning on avoiding most of that - all the packages and source >> files have MD5 entries we can read. And apt-ftparchive is too slow, so >> we're going to avoid it. > >I thought you (someone said anyway) wanted to stick with >apt-ftparchive instead of mangling the Packages, Sources and Contents >files but enable the caching to speed up the process. That way only >the first build would be slow. No, apt-ftparchive is not fast enough for me. We already have all the md5 information in the Packages files in the archives... >>>What would be real great though would be to combine this with the >>>realy realy fast jigdo file creation. If you don't create iso images >>>you don't even need the debs. Just get the Packages/Sources files, >>>create jidgo, done. Would that be possible? Creating isos without >>>local mirror could then go this way and run jigdo to create images. >> >> You're psychic - that's exactly what we've been thinking about. There >> are some issues to think about in this scheme, for example the fact >> that some files _have_ to be downloaded as they will go directly into >> the template file as raw data. But it might be possible to generate >> skeleton jigdo files in a few seconds per CD if we get this >> right... :-) > >You probably need to get the indices/md5sum.gz file to fill in the >md5sums for tools and docs too. But all that is peanuts compared to >5GB for dvd1. :) Yes, exactly. *grin* -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
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