Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:57:06 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Subject: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? Message-ID: <20010601225706.A36653@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <200106012042.f51Kg1U29811@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:42:01PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106011314060.51937-100000@sobek.openirc.co.uk> <200106012042.f51Kg1U29811@vashon.polstra.com>
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Heya John,
> That would be me. :-) I don't think it's worth pursuing, at least not
> for pkg-plist files. I looked at my ports tree, which is just a few
> days old. It contains 4894 pkg-plist files. Of those, 3479 (71%)
> can't be compressed at all. The reason is that their sizes are 1024
> bytes or less. That is the default fragment size (smallest unit of
> allocation) in UFS filesystems, which means that any file from 1-1024
> bytes in size will use the same amount of space on the disk. You
> could compress each of those files by a factor of 10 without freeing
> up a single block on your disk.
>
> The sum total of all the pkg-plist files is only 22 MB, which isn't
> worth walking around the corner to save. Megabytes ain't what they
> used to be, you know. :-)
You're right :)
Wow, 300K would be more than 1% of that ports tree then. JDK 1.2 is *really*
bloated, and it's getting worse, since JDK 1.3 and JDK 1.4 are each quite a
lot bigger than the previous versions! :-/
I guess I should indeed have the pkg-plist generated from the Makefile at
install time, as Trevor suggested. :)
/Ernst
--
Ernst de Haan
Java Architect
Jollem Information Technology
"Come to me all who are weary and burdened
and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ
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