Bug#188407: apt: Keep the package lists in /var/lib/apt/lists compressed with gzip
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
Make APT store the downloaded lists 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).
The complete lists for main, contrib, non-us and non-free currently weigh in
at about 10 megs, while compressing them with gzip -9 brings them down to only
2.5 megs, which is a significant saving on types of systems mentioned above.
One can probably forgo APT on those systems and tweak them by hand, but it
sure is nice to have APT available for occasional upgrades.
The same goes for the /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available} lists of DPKG.
-- 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 apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
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