On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:58:10PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:55:18AM +0100, Fabrice Lorrain (home) wrote: > > "James A. Treacy" wrote: > > > > > ... > > > - for efficiency the extraction script should extract the changelog.gz > > > changelog.debian.gz and copyright file all in one go. > > The copyright file is not really needed. > > Maybe not for you, but it is requested frequently. > Besides, the extra resources needed to grab that file along with the > others is negligible. > > > > To prevent an overly large, flat directory I would suggest creating a > > > cache that mirrors the archive pool directory structure. > > Why not using the pool directory directly? > > > That is part of the archive and would unnecessarily enlarge it. >
So, you're thinking along the lines of a cgi that would initially respond to a user's 'littledoc' request by extracting just the pieces we want from the .tgz, and present the info to the user. And then it would store that info in a disk cache file so the next user to request the same info wouldn't cause it to re-extract? Each server's cache file would have different contents based on what requests it's seen. Wouldn't that make servers' resource needs hard to predict? BTW, I mentioned the README because it sometimes would give a better idea of what the package does. Some package descriptions are obtuse or just plain too brief to convey understanding. -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | `. `'` | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `- | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
