Hi,
So I guess the next step is to do a tentative extention to
dinstall, which would generate size data, and once we start
collecting that, we can get apt to look at it.
manoj
>>"Richard" == Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Hmm. I guess that this can be yet another task performed by
>> dinstall, so one wouldn't even need to run the script over all
>> packages (one would just cache the result to regenerate the master
>> file later, I guess).
Richard> Indeed, and it would be easier to implement this way. We
Richard> already have the framework for generating several indices
Richard> from the deb files (such as md5sums), this would just be one
Richard> more.
>> Hmm. This could get time consuming, though. We need to look at
>> _how_ time consuming it is.
Richard> The main time cost would be that of uncompressing the
Richard> data.tar.gz element. This need only be done for changed
Richard> packages. On my machine, creating the tar index for a
Richard> package takes about 1 second per megabyte (or 2 seconds per
Richard> megabyte if dpkg does it.) This is an 120 BogoMIPS machine
Richard> :-)
Richard> This index is already needed to generate the Contents files,
Richard> by the way. It should be possible to collect the
Richard> information once and use it for both.
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