On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:24:58AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:34:10 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 11:11, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> That is but one optimization: we already are suffering from archive > >> bloat, what about the disk and bandwidth cost of carrying around > >> the sigs? And since one rarely needs the md5sums anyway, what is > >> so wrong with checking against the .deb when needed? > > > I just took an md5sum of every file on my system. Including things > > like /var and /home that aren't part of packages. It's 13M, > > uncompressed. Compressed, it's 3.5M. > > > If we were really worried about archive size, an md5sum is 16 > > octets. It's hard to see that mattering to overall archive size. > > I am (probably) getting a Zaurus for christmas this year. I > would like to run Debian on it. You think that the PDA has gobs of > disk space to throw around?
udeb's would probably be better here anyway; the checksums is not the heaviest load on your Zaurus; dpkg itself, perl, glibc, etc will be. [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/
