Hello Dave,
Dave Martin [2010-08-09 10:47 +0100]:
> 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)
If the hook updates /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.{list,md5sum}
accordingly, it should be alright.
> Ah, I misunderstood. I was thinking about compressing
> {,src}pkgcache.bin instead of the package lists... Ignore my comments
> on that ;)
srcpkgcache.bin can be dropped entirely. pkgcache.bin can be dropped
for most operations [1], but synaptics doesn't work without one [2].
So pkgcache.bin needs to stay as it is for the time being.
Thanks,
Martin
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReducingDiskFootprint#Disable%20apt%20caches
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/596898
--
Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
_______________________________________________
linaro-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
