Bug#32920: marked as done (apt: wish: keep /var/state/apt/lists/* files compressed)
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:55:07 +0100 (CET)
From: debian@Tonelli.sns.it
Subject: apt: wish: keep /var/state/apt/lists/* files compressed
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Package: apt
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hi
those files are big (some megabytes)
and when (rarely) they are used to recontruct the caches and the
file "available" for dpkg, they could be gunzipped on the fly,
without much CPU cost!
thanks
a.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux Tonelli 2.0.34 #2 Thu Jul 9 10:57:48 EST 1998 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU Libc: shared libraries
ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-4 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/debian dists/proposed-updates/
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
--- End /etc/apt/sources.list
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