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decompress database files and use a rolling chunker

Open RubenKelevra opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

The compressed database files need to be fetched each time there's a change, even if there's just a single package updated.

To avoid this, I like to decompress them and use a rolling chunker with fairly small chunks on it. This way, ipfs can do delta updates on it.

Compared to packages, this is possible because database files are not signed – it just doesn't matter how they are delivered as Pacman will always trust them.

RubenKelevra avatar May 05 '22 19:05 RubenKelevra

Necessary to investigate how useful this would be.

RubenKelevra avatar May 24 '22 09:05 RubenKelevra