Alan Corey wrote:
> You don't actually need most upgrades, I have a Jessie machine
> running, haven't updated it in a couple years.
this would be stupid advise if your machine were on directly connected to or
would access the internet, but assuming you use it behind a firewall at
home and it is i
i remembered sonething: the apt packages are read into memory in order to
sort them alphabetically, aren't they? (i.e. there's no database per se)
that being the case, then, well, doing a hierarchical office paperwork sort
would do the trick.
first not-sort by appending all packages beginning wit
Christoph Biedl wrote:
> this story isn't new: Older boxes with rather small memory. In my case,
> DockStar with 128 Mbyte RAM. They still serve a job as e.g. a router,
> but that limitation becomes more and more a problem. The biggest issue,
> at least for me, is apt although it's just the bringe
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:42:08 +0100
Christoph Biedl wrote:
>Hello,
>
>this story isn't new: Older boxes with rather small memory. In my case,
>DockStar with 128 Mbyte RAM. They still serve a job as e.g. a router,
>but that limitation becomes more and more a problem. The biggest issue,
>at least fo
Paul Wise wrote...
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 2:53 PM Paul Wise wrote:
>
> > I think that this could be useful to a subset of Debian users,
> > possibly including embedded hardware and low-RAM cloud/VPS users.
>
> This could also be useful to bandwidth-constrained environments, the
> apt package
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote...
> not being funny or anything: i appreciate the dependencies have to be kept
> exceptionally low, but why is noone thinking in terms of modifications to
> apt that do not require the package indices to be in-memory?
The apt code already is quite complex and c
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 3:04 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> And devices with limited storage. Two days ago I had to install Debian
> 10 on a fresh SDcard and swap-in the card on an IoT gadget. The dist
> upgrade used too much space and the existing SDcard ran out of space
> when unpacking/installing a
On Monday, February 15, 2021, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 2:53 PM Paul Wise wrote:
>
>> I think that this could be useful to a subset of Debian users,
>> possibly including embedded hardware and low-RAM cloud/VPS users.
>
> This could also be useful to bandwidth-constrained environm
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 9:22 PM Paul Wise wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 2:53 PM Paul Wise wrote:
>
> > I think that this could be useful to a subset of Debian users,
> > possibly including embedded hardware and low-RAM cloud/VPS users.
>
> This could also be useful to bandwidth-constrained en
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 2:53 PM Paul Wise wrote:
> I think that this could be useful to a subset of Debian users,
> possibly including embedded hardware and low-RAM cloud/VPS users.
This could also be useful to bandwidth-constrained environments, the
apt package indices are really quite large the
On 2021-02-14 14:42, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> And so I started a small project:
>
> * Take the list of binary packages that are actually installed, less
> than 500 in my case.
> * Have copies of `dists/stretch/main/binary-{all,armel}/Packages`.
> * Drop all stanzas that are *not* in the above lis
Linux From Scratch is interesting because it has no package system at
all. But it's mostly i386 with Raspberry Pi added by a contributor.
Once it's bootstrapped everything is built from sources.
You don't actually need most upgrades, I have a Jessie machine
running, haven't updated it in a couple
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 1:42 PM Christoph Biedl wrote:
> The packages indexes became that big they no longer fit into memory. In
> September 2015, there was a suggestion to create subsets of a release
I seem to remember that Emdebian used that solution too.
> but I objected it will be more or le
Hello,
this story isn't new: Older boxes with rather small memory. In my case,
DockStar with 128 Mbyte RAM. They still serve a job as e.g. a router,
but that limitation becomes more and more a problem. The biggest issue,
at least for me, is apt although it's just the bringer of the bad news:
The p
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