Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:42:55 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Artem Tepponen <temik@egartech.com> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020708154255.GC304@scoobysnax.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B2907416F@turtle.egar.egartech.com> References: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B2907416F@turtle.egar.egartech.com>
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| > 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. | | 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. I think the meta data should be available uncompressed prepended to the .tar.bz2 archive. Zipping would also work, however as someone earlier pointed out zip compression is sub-optimal compared to bzip (or gzip for that matter). Considering the sheer amount (and size) of some of our packages I don't think that this is a minor issue. I'll be preparing a summary of this whole thread later on today. -Dan -- That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy. -- Seneca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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