Hello Dave, Dave Martin [2010-08-09 10:47 +0100]: > 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)
If the hook updates /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.{list,md5sum} accordingly, it should be alright. > Ah, I misunderstood. I was thinking about compressing > {,src}pkgcache.bin instead of the package lists... Ignore my comments > on that ;) srcpkgcache.bin can be dropped entirely. pkgcache.bin can be dropped for most operations [1], but synaptics doesn't work without one [2]. So pkgcache.bin needs to stay as it is for the time being. Thanks, Martin [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReducingDiskFootprint#Disable%20apt%20caches [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/596898 -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev