Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 13:38:37 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@mail-in.net> To: ernst@jollem.com, jdp@polstra.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, trevor@jpj.net Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_Supporting_pkg-plist.gz_=3F?= Message-ID: <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net> In-Reply-To: <20010601225706.A36653@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:57:06 +0200, Ernst de Haan wrote: > 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. :) Actually we could save much more disk space by collapsing one-line pkg-comment files into either pkg-descr or Makefile [bikeshed pending]. This way we could free about 5MB (5,000 files * 1,024 bytes wasted per file) w/o any significant disadvantage. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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