Re: RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files
Josip Rodin writes:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:09:03PM -0400, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> > > Allowing .bz2 here will save 25% of the time to get them by FTP !
> >
> > Look in the archives for the opinion on bz2. On less than midrange
> > pentiums bzip2 is quite slow. 100k is not much of a diff, even over
> > my modem.
>
> It is on mine. :< I think the bzip2ed version should be added next
> to non-compressed and gzipped.
Sorry if I not sufficiently explained myself (as usual), but, as Josip
says, nothing prevents us to have both Packages.gz and Packages.bz2 in
the archive, and have a local setting telling which one should be
fetched. On my K6-II/350, and with a pay-per-time PPP link, there's
not much need to discuss the usefulness of this IMHO, and the "RFC"
was more in my mind a "request for implementor" ;)
That said, although I'd prefer that someone else does it, if noone
stands up for this, I'll do. AFAICT this will require updates to the
following packages:
* dinstall (not in the dist ?)
* apt ftp/http methods
* dpkg-ftp (optionally - I won't do it)
Regards,
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