On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:18:32AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Of course, it could be added as a field in the package description, but > I believe Manoj was intending to add it as an extra control file for > the package (which would require downloading the package, unless further > provisions were taken -- and, yes, you could extract the file by > direct examination of the archive part of the package, with no package > format change but a bit more software, though this would be a bit > more resource intensive than extracting a control file). My suggestion would have this info not even in the control files. It'd be in the main ar along with debian-binary, control.tar.gz, and data.tar.gz. You'd still have to DL the thing, but you intended to install it so you'd HAVE to DL it anyway for that. I don't recall if ar's are compressed or not, if not it might be a good idea to gzip the thing first. I just thought it might be faster than dealing with the potentially high overhead of ar, gzip, and then tar on something with lotsa control stuffs. I don't know of any packages this would be an issue offhand, so Manoj's suggestion might be better (and need less work which is always good..)
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