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Re: standard apt/yum meta-data format



On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:48:07AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:

> The one thing I would wish is apt/dpkg using an index on the Packages
> files. Using apt-get update/upgrade on slow machines is very painful when
> the sources.list contains stable+testing+unstable.

dpkg doesn't touch the Packages files, and apt _does_ use indexes.
If your system is resource-starved, feed it fewer packages.

-- 
 - mdz



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