Re: Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:25:07PM +0300, =?UTF-8?Q? =D0=9F=D0=BE=D1=80=D1=82=D0=BE=D0=BD_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=9B=D1=8C=D0=B2=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=B8=D1=87 ?= wrote: > First, I suggested .zip just for an example. There are other similar > archivers with bigger compression ratio. > > > One

Re: Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Портон Виктор Львович <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not always. For example, apache2 package is split into two packages: > apache2 and apache2-doc (and also apache2-dev and several others). To > Build apache2 binary package most of documentation files are not > needed. In the case of apache2 downl

Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Портон Виктор Львович
First, I suggested .zip just for an example. There are other similar archivers with bigger compression ratio. >> 3. Users could be then able to mount a .zip file from the Debian FTP server >> and compile a package directly from the server. This would reduce download >> I deem some about 50% compa

Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2006-02-15 kello 04:00 +0500, Victor Porton kirjoitti: > Here is my plan how to reduce Debian servers load and users Debian packages > download bandwidth: > > 1. Package in .zip (or a similar format) instead of .tar.{gz,bz2} Picking a random package: -rw-rw-r-- 1 liw liw 18113820 Mar 18 2

Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-14 Thread Victor Porton
Package: general Severity: wishlist Here is my plan how to reduce Debian servers load and users Debian packages download bandwidth: 1. Package in .zip (or a similar format) instead of .tar.{gz,bz2} 2. Implement ZIP filesystem as Linux kernel module. 3. Users could be then able to mount a .zip f