Bug#92220: RFP: Contents-* - Please package Contents-*.gz files
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr@pingu.ii.uj.edu.pl> wrote:
> >Contents-*.gz files are very usefull. AFAIR they are generated weekly.
> >
> >Having to download them manually is not very comfortable.
> >Why not apt-get install contents-i386 and have it always up-to-date?
> >
> >In addition, package could be upgraded only when Contents-*.gz file has
> >really changed (e.g sort both files and diff them or sth. like that)
>
> They change every day for most architectures (or would if they were kept
> up-to-date). This seems a bit impractical ...
>
> I'd like some more convenient way of dealing with them, I must admit.
The best solution I found is this:
Package: Contents-i386
Version: 2001-04-01
Package: Contents-i386-diff
Version: 2001-04-04
Depends: Contents-i386 (= 2001-04-01)
Package: Contents-i386-diff # this has diffs against Contents-i386, not
Version: 2001-04-07 # Contents-i386-diff
Depends: Contents-i386 (= 2001-04-01)
When there are many changes since Contetns-i386 2001-04-01 we could
releas this 2 packages:
Package: Contents-i386 # new Contents.gz
Version: 2001-04-10
Package: Contents-i386-diff # dummy package needed for satisfy depends
Version: 2001-04-10
Depends: Contents-i386 (= 2001-04-10)
This is not very good, since you have to dl new Contents.gz even if you
have diffs from a day before. But I don't see any other way :(
If Contents.gz is not frequently changed, we could use
Package: Contents-i386
Version: 2001-04-01
Package: Contents-i386
Version: 2001-04-08
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Piotrek
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