ially if you delete something near the start of
> the archive...
Ah, right. I take it that rules out having one big tarball for
/usr/share/doc/ then?
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Loïc Minier wrote:
> [...]
> > Yup, Martin Pitt worked on some APT patches to allow keeping t
DiskFootprint#Disable%20apt%20caches
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/596898
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matically fragment the file, which reduces or even
reverts the initial space saving.
Martin
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em.
For the project I implemented this it was good enough (i. e. saved us
some 40 MB), and we don't care about the couple of bytes of extra
directory overhead.
However, dpkg does support hooks for things like that. If you want to
do this, you might put a --post-invoke hook some
t; file list) could silently be overwritten when installing another
> package.
Creating files dpkg doesn't know about is not a problem per se -- but
of course dpkg wouldn't know how to remove it on removal or upgrade,
so you have to cope with all of those in the hook.
Martin
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