On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:16:00PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello all, > > Alexander Sack [2010-08-06 12:15 +0200]: > > > If we have to keep /usr/share/doc/ (for copyright notices and so on), > > > maybe it would be feasible to replace each /usr/share/doc/<package>/ > > > with a tarball? This would eliminate most of the overhead as well as > > > making the actual data smaller. Since /usr/share/doc/ is not accessed > > > often, and not accessed by many automated tools, this might not cause > > > much disruption. > > > > > > > CCed Martin who probably has thought about this copyright/space dilemma > > while implementing the dpkg goody i mentioned above. > > Replacing the /usr/share/doc/ contents with a tarball, and updating > this with every package update is certainly not something dpkg itself > should do behind your back IMHO (or even could). It would also mean > quite a lot of overhead whenever you touch any package in the system.
By touch I think you mean install, upgrade or remove, and of these I guess upgrade is the more common case; do you think it is? Would the overhead be significant even if the tarball wasn't compressed? I don't understand enough about tar's concatenate and delete performance to risk a guess. -- Christian Robottom Reis | [+55] 16 9112 6430 | http://launchpad.net/~kiko Linaro Engineering VP | [ +1] 612 216 4935 | http://async.com.br/~kiko _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
