Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:18:31 +0400 From: "Artem Tepponen" <temik@egartech.com> To: "Doug Barton" <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B2907416F@turtle.egar.egartech.com>
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> From: Doug Barton [mailto:DougB@FreeBSD.org] > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 10:47 AM >=20 > I think that we should start asking the questions about how=20 > 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. You will achieve best compression with tar+(bzip2|gzip), cause format that compresses individual pieces and makes archive usually loses to make archive and compress to one file kind of format. Exceptions are very rare. The only problem is how to handle metadata piece that have to have at least two properties: 1. It should be available without whole thing being decompressed. 2. It should be available asap in case of slow link. Artem Tepponen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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