On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 03:52:13PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > > There might be things to think about though: some packages have lots > > of conffiles, and that could mean some extra disk space, which not > > everyone will want to spend. Maybe make it optional. > > Bzipping could help, and maybe even tarring them all to one file. As a quick > test, I bzip-tarred my entire /etc. The resulting file was merely 1.4MB even > though there are about 1300 'ii' or 'rc' packages on my system.
You don't want to have to gunzip everything though just so you can update one file... How about: /var/lib/xyz/package1.tar.gz /var/lib/xyz/package2.tar.gz ... /var/lib/xyz/package3.tar.gz So you have one tar.gz file per package. Or, if that is too many files in one directory, use the package pools naming system: /var/lib/xyz/p/package1.tar.gz /var/lib/xyz/p/package2.tar.gz ... /var/lib/xyz/p/package3.tar.gz -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
