On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hello Dave,
[...] > Ah, right. I take it that rules out having one big tarball for > /usr/share/doc/ then? Hence my thought of having a tarball per package. I'm still a bit worried about a post-unpack hook changing the package files to be different from dpkg's file list for the package -- that could cause safety problems. Is there a way to tell dpkg that the hook changed the files? (May just be my ignorance) [...] > Only dynamically in memory when building pkgcache.bin. But that > doesn't change the RAM footprint, since without compression it would > also read the entire file into RAM while doing that. Ah, I misunderstood. I was thinking about compressing {,src}pkgcache.bin instead of the package lists... Ignore my comments on that ;) Cheers ---Dave _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev