On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Scott Ritchie <scottritc...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Perhaps we should instead assess why apt needs to spend so much time > and bandwidth checking for updates. Other devices with frequent > updates (eg mobile phones) don't have to download nearly as much data > -- surely apt could be a bit smarter.
To expand on this, I did some preliminary investigation of the current Trusty universe Packages file for i386 and amd64. All of the architecture: all packages occur identically in both the i386 and amd64 files. Original (compressed.bz2) file size for both: 5.7M + 5.7M = 11.4M Combining them and removing the duplicate arch: all packages and recompressing: 8.9 M So we can trivially save 15% by just merging the two files together! Parser code at https://gist.github.com/YokoZar/8999726 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
