On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 04:41:27PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > I'd like us to try out using LZ4 compressed index files in > /var/lib/apt/lists for 18.04, starting from the beginning > of the development period with apt 1.6~alpha1 (ASAP). > > This is done by swapping the default for Acquire::gzipIndexes > from false to true. > > On my (Debian) system, this compresses /var/lib/apt/lists > from 1.3 GB down to 241 MB, which is a lot of space. > > There are some packages broken with this, I just started > a mass bug filing in Debian for that purpose.
Note that we'd need to get https://code.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/launchpad-buildd/apt-lists/+merge/286751 reviewed and landed before doing this, or dep-wait analysis of failed builds will break. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
