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Re: tar.xz packages?
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:41:35 -0600
- Subject: Re: tar.xz packages?
- References: <20120131143748.GC20511@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120131175922.GA20045@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20120131201947.GA31514@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120131203711.GA27772@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <1328062280.4924.35.camel@YAAKOV04>
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