On 11.08.11 Ansgar Burchardt (ansgar@debian.org) wrote: > The archive software now accepts packages using xz for compression in > addition to gzip and bzip2 for both source and binary packages. > > Additionally please only use xz (or bzip2 for that matter) if your > package really profits from its usage (for example, it provides a > significant space saving). > Just some small estimations: hille@sid:~ $ ls -l texlive-bin_2011.20110628.orig.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 hille users 163682702 Aug 3 16:21 texlive-bin_2011.20110628.orig.tar.gz hille@sid:~ $ time gzip -d texlive-bin_2011.20110628.orig.tar.gz real 0m20.582s user 0m4.464s sys 0m1.116s hille@sid:~ $ ls -l texlive-bin_2011.20110628.orig.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 hille users 153899088 Aug 3 16:21 texlive-bin_2011.20110628.orig.tar.bz2 hille@sid:~ $ time bzip2 -d texlive-bin_2011.20110628.orig.tar.bz2 real 0m26.311s user 0m23.289s sys 0m1.316s hille@sid:~ $ ls -l texlive-bin_2011.20110628.orig.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 hille users 113208704 Aug 3 16:21 texlive-bin_2011.20110628.orig.tar.xz hille@sid:~ $ time xz -d texlive-bin_2011.20110628.orig.tar.xz real 0m24.378s user 0m14.909s sys 0m1.768s hille@sid:~ $ I used xz -7 for compression. I think we could use xz for compression. H. -- Don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back. http://www.hilmar-preusse.de.vu/
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