Bug#458663: Missing support for data.tar.bz2-based debs
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:34:13PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
>
> >> The worst (and most relevant here) constraint is on initrd size, and
> >> that is unaffected by .deb size.
> >
> > Why not move it out, then? Just unpack the necessary packages in the target
> > root so that you can decompress the rest.
>
> If it's done using that way the size increasement (of initrd) could be
> avoid. That doesn't solve the memory footprint (of bzip2 usage).
>
> > And while we're at it, why not use lzma instead? Gives better compression
> > ratio, and the size increase becomes insignificant once that issue is solved.
>
> Talking at #debian-boot about this issue, we also doesn't know if the
> compression ratio will be good enough to justify the slowdown of
> uncompression. Base isn't a big set of packages and IMHO before
> deciding about commiting this change or not we need to know how much
> we'd reduce the size of base set.
You have to add bandwidth to the equation. I'd guess most setups can spare
more CPU than bandwidth. Anyway, it wouldn't be a problem if they can happen
in parallel.
--
Robert Millan
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