Parallel dpkg
PPA description
Supplies a backport to trusty of modern dpkg, with support for experimental parallel XZ compression. When using dpkg-deb to compress a 2.2GB payload, this version of dpkg-deb takes, on a 12-core machine:
30 seconds to compress to 555MB (-z1)
42 seconds to compress to 521MB (-z3)
119 seconds to compress to 478MB (-z6)
Running the same test with dpkg 1.17.5:
319 seconds to compress to 550MB (-z1)
This dpkg package is not recommended for desktop use, but may be installed into pbuilders and other build environments. It is missing deselect and translations.
Adding this PPA to your system
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:mikepurvis/dpkg to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mikepurvis/dpkg
sudo apt update
For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact Mike Purvis.
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Overview of published packages
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1.18.4ubuntu2~mikepurvis~xenial | Mike Purvis () |
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1.18.4~mikepurvis2 | Mike Purvis () |
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5.2.2-1~mikepurvis | Mike Purvis () |
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5.2.2-1~mikepurvis~xenial | Mike Purvis () |
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