On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:12:08PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > Well, before I venture on this, is there a way we can store certain > > data in control.tar.gz or something but without bloating the Packages > > file? > > No. Well, why not? All it would take would be for apt-ftparchive/dpkg-scanpackages to not copy the relevant fields into the Packages file; would this break anything? (and if so, can we fix it?) Of course, this approach is only interesting for data that isn't needed frequently in advance. On a related note, since control.tar.gz is packed into the ar archive before data.tar.gz, a sufficiently intelligent http client can acquire just that portion of the package on demand. [Note, I'm not convinced that this is a useful thing to do, just wondering whether it is possible] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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