On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 11:38:45PM +0000, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote: > Jeroen Dekkers@lists.debian-devel@Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:14:27 +0100: > > First of all, why should the Packages file be readable? Isn't it just > > an index? > > > If this is about the file being a textfile: That's what I love about > Debian.. With RPM I can't manually change things when the system messes > up, with Debian I can. I don't see how a system could mess up the Package file on the ftp server. Besides that apt already uses the binary file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin. > But you probably don't mean that.. Yes, I wasn't talking about the dpkg status files. > > Second, all the human readable descriptions would be in the different > > pool directory, i.e. in the file pool/main/f/foobar/Packages. > > > I think downloading *all* those separate files will be a *lot* slower. > OF course, it's only the initial download, still an initial download > would mean >8000 requests instead of <10. First of all, why can't you provide one big files too? You also don't need all those 8000 files. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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