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Debian Bug report logs - #505154
keep /var/lib/dpkg/status compressed

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Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Ivan Todoroski <grnch@gmx.net>

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:33:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 188408

Found in version 1.10.9

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>, apt@packages.qa.debian.org:
Bug#188407; Package apt. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Ivan Todoroski <grnch@gmx.net>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>, apt@packages.qa.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ivan Todoroski <grnch@gmx.net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: apt: Keep the package lists in /var/lib/apt/lists compressed with gzip
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 04:27:05 +0200
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist

Make APT store the downloaded lists gzipped and unzip them on the fly when
loading, cause they take a lot of space on old and small dedicated Debian
systems (routers, firewalls, X terminals, etc).

The complete lists for main, contrib, non-us and non-free currently weigh in
at about 10 megs, while compressing them with gzip -9 brings them down to only
2.5 megs, which is a significant saving on types of systems mentioned above.

One can probably forgo APT on those systems and tweak them by hand, but it
sure is nice to have APT available for occasional upgrades.

The same goes for the /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available} lists of DPKG.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux inspiron 2.4.20-ck3_o1_pe_ll_rl2_tune_radeonfb #1 Fri Mar 28 01:24:58 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-16    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library

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Bug 188407 cloned as bug 505154. Request was from "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:48:23 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Bug reassigned from package `apt' to `dpkg'. Request was from "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:48:25 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Changed Bug title to `keep /var/lib/dpkg/status compressed' from `apt: Keep the package lists in /var/lib/apt/lists compressed with gzip'. Request was from "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:48:26 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Merged 188408 505154. Request was from Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:25:29 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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