Bug#188408: dpkg: Keep the status/available lists compressed with gzip
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.9
Severity: wishlist
Make DPKG store the /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available} lists and their .old backups
gzipped and unzip them on the fly when loading, cause they take a lot of space on
old and small dedicated Debian systems (routers, firewalls, X terminals, etc).
On my machine their size is about 16 megs, while compressing them with gzip -9
shrinks them to about 5 megs, which is a significant saving on types of systems
mentioned above.
One can probably forgo DPKG on those systems and tweak them by hand, but it
sure is nice to have DPKG available for occasional upgrades.
The same goes for the /var/lib/apt/lists/* package lists of APT.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux inspiron 2.4.20-ck3_o1_pe_ll_rl2_tune_radeonfb #1 Fri Mar 28 01:24:58 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.9 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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