On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:01:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > 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.
I should mention that you don't need apt-helper, but can just pass a file name to apt_pkg.TagFile and it handles decompression, starting with libapt-pkg4.12 (which is about apt 1.0.9 I think?). -- Debian Developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev | Ubuntu Core Developer | When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to ('inline'). Thank you. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel