Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?
Right now I'm using a 200MMX with 64MB, which used to be a 133MHz with
64MB and I always found the speed of dpkg perfectly acceptable. Are you
using the outdated dselect method that scans every single package every
time you install one little component, and do have like 400 packages
installed with 60,000 files on your disk? Please fully consider all the
points I made in my other emails.
Christopher
John Goerzen wrote:
>
> This is silly. dpkg/dselect are already insanely slow, even on my
> P166 with 128 meg of RAM -- especially when reading database, etc. If
> we slow down the installation so much more by using bzip2, then people
> will simply stop upgrading, or switch to other distributions because
> it is so slow. That is not acceptable.
>
> John
>
> Christopher Barry <cbarry@2xtreme.net> writes:
>
> > If your mighty 386/25 with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution
> > and custom kernels then surely it won't sweat a little bit of bzip2
> > decompressing... and since you spend a lot less time downloading a
> > bzip2ed *.deb, the extra time bzip2 would take by swapping and thrashing
> > the disk should balance out nicely.
> >
> > Christopher
> >
> >
> > James Troup wrote:
> > >
> > > Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> writes in gratuitous QP:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:15:40PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> > > > > > Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway.
> > > > >
> > > > > Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent
> > > > > with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times. Took 5 days,
> > > > > like, but it compiled ``properly''.
> > > >
> > > > I doubt it would compile on my 4 meg 486.
> > >
> > > I don't; I compiled kernels on the same machine when it only had 4Mb.
> > >
> > > > Nor would it run there.
> > >
> > > And I know it ran on my Falcon with 4Mb...
> > >
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> > > James
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