Comment 25 for bug 635834

(In reply to comment #22)

> > 2. from time to time probably full copy of Packages file should be done
> Easy to say but very hard to automate a ~100Mb copy with bullet-proofing.
> Lusers need to design their own backups.

Forget to add one information:

I've just checked that --rebuilddb already creates such 'weird' slow file.
Are there used files with holes ?
I think it's actually pretty nontrivial to make it so much fragment.

As a quick hack - maybe even just plain copy right after --rebuilddb could make things better for a lot of people....