![]() Hardlink identical docs, changelogs, copyrights, examples, etc Having taken localepurge’s APT hook as example, I added theįollowing content as /etc/apt//98-hardlink-doc to my system: This command more or less after each aptitude run, i.e. Happen more than daily, I came to the conclusion that I should run So I found myself running hardlink /usr/share/doc now and then to gain Nevertheless, some source packages generate several binary packagesĪnd all of them (of course) ship the same, in some cases quite large (Severity: minor, experimental, from Lintian 2.5.0 on). (Severity: normal, from Lintian 2.5.2 on) and “duplicate-files” Niels Thykier kindly implemented such a check in Lintian and itsįindings are as reported as tags “duplicate-changelog-files” Less than four gigabytes installation on my EeePC found nine packagesĪs recommended I rather opted for an according Lintian check (seeīugs. Just looked for duplicate files per package, which even on that hardlink seemed most appropriate for this case. There are quite some tools to find duplicate files in Debian. Quite some more disk space, I noticed that the new package version So when aptitude showed me that some package suddenly wanted to use up On the web somewhere) as they’re an important source of information ![]() Shipped changelog files (you can still get the remainder of the files I also dislike Ubuntu’s “solution” to truncate the (including the copyright files!) via some package namedĭocpurge. How Nokia solved that on the N900: They let APT delete allįiles and directories under /usr/share/doc But since I value theĬontents of /usr/share/doc a lot, I condemn Using du and friends I often noticed how much disk space /usr/share/doc takes up. Yet another one is to use du and friends a lot – ncdu is definitely my favourite Was to implement aptitude filters to do interactively what deborphan does Installing localepurge was one of the earliest. So I came up with a few techniques to save some more disk space. The disk (4 GB as the product name suggests :-) is nearly always On my everyday netbook (a very reliable first generation ASUS EeePC 701 4G) Performance penalty on applying the diffs and deltas. So I used PDiffs and debdelta even despite having a slight )Īnd all these experiences were not made with a high-performance CPUīut with the approximately 5 year old Intel Atom processor of my ASUSĮeePC 900A. Minor update at 15 kB/s average download rate. byįactor four (depending on the packages). Speed up my download rates over EDGE to up to virtual 100 kB/s, i.e. ![]() Oh, and btw., for the very same reasons I’m also a big fan of debdelta which is approximately the same as PDiffs, just not for Must be kept available for those who haven’t 100 MBit/s fibreĬonnection into their homes or are sitting just one hop away from the So yes, disabling PDiffs by default is probably ok, but the feature If you happen to be aĬustomer of such a shitty ISP, you may be happy to reduce your trafficĪmount by using PDiffs instead of downloading the full package list
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