Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?
According to the benchmarks in http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/ , the size of the archive would be nearly 30% smaller, but the decompression would be 5 times slower, meaning that it would take 500% the time it takes now to uncompress the archives. Compression time would be 10 times more (1000% the time it takes now). I wonder if that would be suitable for smaller systems.
Greetings,
Miry
2007/4/12, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:12:00PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Do we have plans for lenny to enable the use of bzip2 instead of gzip
> for the upstream orig.tar source tarballs? Does dpkg/apt support this
> already or has this already been thought about?
>
> This would reduce our archive size by some 20% if all packages moved to
> bzip2.
Why not lzma? It reduces size even more and doesn't suffer from the "all our
code belongs to propietary programs" licensing curse.
http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/
(look for p7zip here; same algorithm, different implementation)
It can be used for data.tar as well. The dpkg shipped in etch had support for
unpacking it, so technicaly we can do it.
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