Bug#508239: apt: method to prefer Packages over Packages.gz over Packages.bz2

[Paul Wise-3]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.18
Severity: wishlist

I'm running Debian on my OpenMoko FreeRunner. Since this is a slowish
ARM machine with limited RAM, I'd like to tell apt to use the
Packages.gz files instead of the Packages.bz2 files to speed up the
update process. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to
achieve this at the moment (based on apt.conf(5) and configure-index.gz)

If there is a method of doing this already, please document it in
configure-index.gz and let me know what it is.

I tried these, but they both produce errors:

Dir { Bin { bzip2 "/bin/true"; }; };
Dir { Bin { bzip2 "/bin/false"; }; };

--
bye,
pabs

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[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

Paul Wise wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.18
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I'm running Debian on my OpenMoko FreeRunner. Since this is a slowish
> ARM machine with limited RAM, I'd like to tell apt to use the
> Packages.gz files instead of the Packages.bz2 files to speed up the
> update process. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to
> achieve this at the moment (based on apt.conf(5) and configure-index.gz)
>
> If there is a method of doing this already, please document it in
> configure-index.gz and let me know what it is.

Hello. There is no such method in the moment. Maybe fortunately, since 0.7.17

apt also looks for plain Packages where there is no Packages.gz or
Packages.bz2, so if you can somehow block these files to be downloaded
(generate 404), your goal would be achieved for now.

In general, yes, it would be good to add some configuration to control this.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian APT contributor

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Package: apt
Version: 0.7.18
Severity: wishlist

I'm running Debian on my OpenMoko FreeRunner. Since this is a slowish
ARM machine with limited RAM, I'd like to tell apt to use the
Packages.gz files instead of the Packages.bz2 files to speed up the
update process. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to
achieve this at the moment (based on apt.conf(5) and configure-index.gz)

If there is a method of doing this already, please document it in
configure-index.gz and let me know what it is.

I tried these, but they both produce errors:

Dir { Bin { bzip2 "/bin/true"; }; };
Dir { Bin { bzip2 "/bin/false"; }; };

--
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


Version: 0.7.24

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 02:02:33PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.18
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I'm running Debian on my OpenMoko FreeRunner. Since this is a slowish
> ARM machine with limited RAM, I'd like to tell apt to use the
> Packages.gz files instead of the Packages.bz2 files to speed up the
> update process. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to
> achieve this at the moment (based on apt.conf(5) and configure-index.gz)
>
> If there is a method of doing this already, please document it in
> configure-index.gz and let me know what it is.
>
> I tried these, but they both produce errors:
>
> Dir { Bin { bzip2 "/bin/true"; }; };
> Dir { Bin { bzip2 "/bin/false"; }; };

See Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order.

>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise