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author | W-Mark Kubacki <wmark@hurrikane.de> | 2012-08-08 18:49:36 +0200 |
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committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2012-08-08 13:18:43 -0700 |
commit | 11c0619c63b54346ee5c67cd67ab1ccb24f5f947 (patch) | |
tree | f11059016c9b2e7b40b319eb414723abbb4b9c52 /man/etc-update.1 | |
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Portage writes a compressed copy of 'Packages' index file.
This behaviour is enabled by FEATURES="compress-index". The
resulting file is 'Packages.gz' and its modification time will
match that of 'Packages'.
Web-servers use that copy to avoid repeated on-the-fly compression.
In order to re-use 'atomic_ofstream' usage of 'codecs.zlib_codec'
has been considered and discarded, because 'GzipFile' yields
smaller files. (According to Mark's tests 62% smaller.)
Example usage, Nginx:
location =/Packages {
gzip_static on;
default_type text/plain;
}
Apache httpd (use with caution):
RewriteRule ^(.*)/Packages$ $1/Packages.gz [T=text/plain,E=GZIP:gzip,L]
<FilesMatch "Packages\.gz$">
Header set Content-Encoding gzip
</FilesMatch>
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