Re: Package Pool Proposal

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> On 21 Nov 1999, Guy Maor wrote:
> 
> > I am going to implement something like this.
> > 
> > The archive will look like this:
> > debian/dists/pool/{binary-arch,source}/x/package
> >   x is the first letter of the filename.  Note that packages are not
> >   organized according to section in the archive, just filename.
> 
> I would be tempted to say this should be improved:
> 
> Wakko{jgg}~/work/dsync/build/bin#apt-cache dumpavail | grep -i ^Package  |
> awk -- '{print substr($2,1,1)}' |  sort | uniq --count | sort -n | tail
>     157 f
>     190 m
>     202 t
>     206 d
>     210 c
>     270 s
>     321 g
>     323 p
>     365 x
>     857 l
> 
> That says we are looking at about 1/5 of the packages in a single
> direcotry (lib* basically)

If 857 is too big a number (I don't know that it is), make an
exeption for lib packages and take the first letter _after_ `lib':

# apt-cache dumpavail | grep -i ^Package | sed -e 's/ lib-/ /;s/ lib/ /' | \
 awk -- '{print substr($2,1,1)}' |  sort | uniq --count | sort -n 

      1 2
      2 3
      2 9
     25 y
     32 q
     36 z
     55 u
     56 o
     57 j
     64 h
     73 v
     74 k
    115 e
    120 b
    146 i
    148 n
    151 w
    165 r
    173 l
    174 f
    193 a
    213 m
    229 t
    240 d
    244 c
    317 s
    378 p
    381 x
    436 g

`g' now wins for GNU.  No big surprise.

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