Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:21:35PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:48:06AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Both cases would need data for multiple archs.
> >
> > For the second case if identical files are in all foo_arch.deb then
> > those should be in foo-common_all.deb. A dedup across archs instead of
> > across packages.
>
> Thanks for explaining. Still this task is quite different from the task
> dedup.d.n is solving, since it requires to look at one package instead
> of looking at one architecture (+ all). Adding support for this to
> dedup.d.n would vastly increase resource usage beyond the currently
> available hardware. In addition the scalability issues differ, since the
> number of architectures is comparatively small to the number of
> packages. Maybe a different tool can solve these two useful tasks you
> proposed?
>
> Helmut
Well, generating a list of all files in all packages with size and
hash would be a common subtask for both. But you mentioned dedup.d.n
only looks at amd64 so far. That certainly reduces the amount of work.
MfG
Goswin
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