Re: RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files

To: dirson@debian.org
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, apt@packages.debian.org
Subject: Re: RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files
From: shaleh@clifford.livenet.net
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:09:03 -0400 (EDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] 199904132009.QAA20735@clifford.livenet.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 14099.41086.603207.842574@bylbo.nowhere.earth> from "dirson@debian.org" at Apr 13, 99 09:52:30 pm

> 
> 
> Just a thought - quick check:
> 
> 442132 Apr 13 21:46 ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages.bz2
> 589652 Apr 13 21:45 ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages.gz
> 
> 
> Allowing .bz2 here will save 25% of the time to get them by FTP !
> If noone steps to implement this in dinstall and apt, I may even get
> the source and do it myself !!
> 

Look in the archives for the opinion on bz2.  On less than midrange
pentiums bzip2 is quite slow.  100k is not much of a diff, even over
my modem.

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- Re: RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files
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- Re: RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files
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- Re: RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files
  - From: Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>

References:
- RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files
  - From: dirson@debian.org

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