tar.xz packages?

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Wed Feb 1 02:41:00 GMT 2012


On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 20:11 -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > Yes, I know.  The mirrors! The mirrors! They will have to download the
> > equivalent of 1.5 times a full release!
> 
> An alternative would be to repack only the binary tarballs, not the
> source ones.  The -src tarballs are generally barely compressed anyway
> (since the bulk of the contents is a compressed tarball which doesn't
> gain anything by recompression), so the few bytes we'd save by switching
> them from bz2 to xz certainly aren't worth the bandwidth it would cost
> to update the mirrors.

FWIW, I tried this with a copy of the Ports repo, and the disk usage
savings was ~8.26% (10614 MiB -> 9736.61 MiB).  A similar result with
the distro would shrink release/ from ~7358 MiB to 6750 MiB.


Yaakov




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