RE: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion
Sorry for the late reply - catching up.
IMHO speed is always relevant, and so is memory usage. This is the trap
Micro$oft
and Apple have fallen into. Just because the hardware is capable of running
faster
is no excuse for sloppy coding. I'm not saying everything should be written
in assembly
language and optimized, but horsepower is not a substitute either.
Pat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brederlow [mailto:goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de]
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 1998 10:48 AM
> To: christophe.broult@info.unicaen.fr
> Cc: Stephan Kulow; debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion
>
>
> Christophe Broult <christophe.broult@info.unicaen.fr> writes:
>
> > Stephan Kulow <coolo@itm.mu-luebeck.de> writes:
> ...
> > > BTW: tar can handle bz2 files. you can use
> --use-compress-program=bzip2.
> >
> > That option isn't working properly with bzip2 but hopefully bzip2 is
> > now supported by tar ie
> >
> > tar cIf
> > tar xIf
> > tar tIf
> >
> > broult@madison:~ $ tar --help | grep zip
> > -I, --bzip2, --bunzip2 filter the archive through bzip2
> > -z, --gzip, --ungzip filter the archive through gzip
> > broult@madison:~ $
> >
> > >
> > > Greets, Stephan
>
> -z filter through gzip, bzip, bzip2 as appropriate
>
> That would be a nice thing. If tar would behave like that, one could
> make gzip or bzip2 deb files depending on once likeing. With todays
> Computers (486+) the speed isn't that relevant and on slow computers
> and installation takes ages anyway, so you normaly start it and do
> something else in parallel.
>
> May the Source be with you.
> Mrvn
>
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