On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Martin Pitt martin.pitt@ubuntu.com wrote:
Hello Dave,
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Ah, right. I take it that rules out having one big tarball for /usr/share/doc/ then?
Hence my thought of having a tarball per package. I'm still a bit worried about a post-unpack hook changing the package files to be different from dpkg's file list for the package -- that could cause safety problems. Is there a way to tell dpkg that the hook changed the files? (May just be my ignorance)
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Only dynamically in memory when building pkgcache.bin. But that doesn't change the RAM footprint, since without compression it would also read the entire file into RAM while doing that.
Ah, I misunderstood. I was thinking about compressing {,src}pkgcache.bin instead of the package lists... Ignore my comments on that ;)
Cheers ---Dave