Compressed apt index files by default for 18.04?

Robie Basak robie.basak at ubuntu.com
Sun Sep 10 09:53:40 UTC 2017


On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 11:48:53AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > What would be our options if were to find issues later such that we
> > concluded that we want to revert this change after release? Would it be
> > a simple flip back of the default in an SRU, or would it be more
> > complicated?
> 
> We can switch the default of acquire::gzipIndexes back to false. This
> won't automatically convert all stuff back however, only when it fetches
> updated indexes will the files be decompressed.

I think that's good enough for me. Thanks!

Robie
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