Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:47:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk, <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020707234138.X2247-100000@master.gorean.org> In-Reply-To: <200207080410.g684ADZt028359@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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As much as I love zip, it's probably not appropriate for compressing the binary packages we actually distribute. I did a quick test with zip vs. bzip2, both on max compression, and the bzip'ed tarball was 40% smaller than the .zip file. Not only is bandwidth an issue for our users, but there is currently a problem just pushing the packages from the cluster out to ftp-master. Not to mention pushing them around to the mirrors. One of the reasons I suggested the "compress the binaries, then compress the metadata plus binary tarball" method is that it is more space efficient. I think that we should start asking the questions about how we can end up with the smallest packages, then go backwards from there to decide how to beat that format into doing what we want. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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