On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:44:16PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > On Sun, 13.02.00 21:24 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ok, lets face it.. the packages file in slink is something like <500K > > (in i386) in potato its >800K.. i think it might be time to start > > splitting it up... > > Every entry in the packages line has a MD5sum entry. Why not taking this > as index and let apt-get ask only for new entries much like the way news > server check new articles against a history file. > > Beneath the traditional monolithic "Packages" file we would have: > Packages.MD5/MD5sum.list.gz > Packages.MD5/base/ff5db5ca20eb40471cf623441e2c5d76 > ... > Packages.MD5/libs/ff7d539db6b9542172713bb1db4ca35f > ... > > Each directory would have about 50-100 files (current calculation for main). > The MD5sum.list would just be a `find` output, which would be of minimal > size. > > The implentation work would probably be very small.
i don't quite follow you, do you mean to split the Packages file, like in the original proposal, or some other way. because i have to admit, you lost me now... =) -- get a life, get the second one free...
