Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Richard Bos <ml@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Op vrijdag 1 december 2006 08:56, schreef Marcus Meissner:
> > Maybe one of those talented persons who designed repomd should have a
> > look at /var/lib/locatedb. It's able to store equivalent information
> > about 2 Linuxes, 1 Windows system and a lot of user files in just 2.5MB.
> > Thanks to not using XML.
>
> Yeah, I saw this too and thought about at least using some kind of
> directory prefix or similar handling.
>
> XML really makes it easy to be stupid in data design :/

What about md5sum-ming the filelist, and use the md5sum as key?  If a new 
version of a package is released with the same filelist only the md5sum needs 
to be transferred.  For big packages the compression might be around 100% ;)


-- 
Richard Bos
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