On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:10:07 +0100 Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: Further idea for Baked: Instead of doing a brute-force 'rm -rf' of the dpkg and apt metadata after a multistrap install, it's as easy to do 'rm' as it is to do 'mv' from the rootfs to somewhere outside the rootfs. That can then be stored, compressed, archived, whatever, kept for future reference and other purposes (like restoring in order to fix critical bugs without reinstalling) etc.etc. One particular file to consider for this is /var/lib/dpkg/status - there could be an argument for retaining this file inside the rootfs (compressed) even if dpkg itself is removed as the status file expresses all of the dpkg metadata for that device and as a version of debian/control data it will compress extremely well. This support might allow users to have their Baked cake and eat it... (Credit to Nick Bane for that enhancement) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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