Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dpkg
Dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr/) format is designed for taking backups on randomly accessible storage. Dar provides an index to individually compressed or directly stored files in archive. There is a very stable and featureful library available to manipulate and merge dar files. Using this format as data part of deb files has advantages: Downloading only necessary parts of packages is possible, avoiding necessity of delta files. We already have an md5sums list in header, map of files in the archive can be merged with this list. Already compressed files will not be compressed again, this wastes time. And also we can get full performance of multicore cpus while compressing and extracting archives. How about working on this idea? ** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704296 Title: 'dar' archives in deb packages -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
