Hi, On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 17:25:00 -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I've had the thought a few times that it could make sense to store a > > repo's files in a git hierarchy, rather than in a package pool. > > > > As in, raw files, with package description files which lookup the SHA > > for each file in the package, when a package is installed. > > The package files are compressed tar archives, and because of this, they > are binary files which alter radically between versions, and thus, would > have horrible delta compression.
Probably what you are looking for instead is something like debdelta? <http://packages.debian.org/sid/debdelta> > > My primary thought is that repository size might be drastically reduced. > > Perhaps some md5sum numbers could be run to test this. > > It would not be reduced by much and would have a tremendous overhead to > access as a result, which the mirrors could never handle, and it would > break backwards compatibility since http or ftp could no longer be used > to fetch packages. I think debdelta does not have those problems, but I've not used it ever. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
