Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 19:13:55 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Steve Price <steve@havk.org>, portmgr@FreeBSD.org, re-x86@FreeBSD.org, binup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RC2 - Saturday? Message-ID: <3C4311D3.B097B22B@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020109223847.P15454@windriver.com> <20020112035210.P22273@windriver.com> <20020112125908.K816@bsd.havk.org> <20020112142950.O73815@squall.waterspout.com> <20020112141029.M816@bsd.havk.org> <20020112161652.V22273@windriver.com> <20020113131341.Y816@bsd.havk.org> <20020114053946.E27556@windriver.com> <20020114090342.D816@bsd.havk.org> <3C42F55C.F16390BD@FreeBSD.org> <20020114071905.K27556@windriver.com>
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Murray Stokely wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:12:28PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Why not use bzip2 compressed packages? This will give you extra 5-10% > > (30-60MB). > > Everyone seems to be in favor of this, but no one has added support > for sysinstall. We need a small lightweight package library that the > pkg_* tools can also use. As it stands now, it's possible for the > pkg_add tools to successfully manipulate a package that sysinstall > claims is invalid, because the package handling code is totally > different. Of course, whenever anyone opens this can of worms, they > embark upon a N year quest to write the mother of all packaging > systems, when all we really need is an incremental step towards a > generic library until something better is completed. Ah, I see. Anyway, following are some numbers obtained using 4.5RC2 disk1 package set: gzip compressed: 409,947,077 bytes bzip2 compressed: 373,533,755 bytes Which gives us additional 34.7MB (36,413,322 bytes) - really not a bad gain. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message
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