From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 22:09:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43AE1065679 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:09:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from worf.ds9.tecnik93.com (worf.ds9.tecnik93.com [81.196.207.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 303B08FC28 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (unknown [188.27.99.61]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by worf.ds9.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 984A822C543B; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:51:12 +0200 (EET) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:51:00 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Goran Tal Message-ID: <20101128235100.2468c27c@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/_R6GZABkA+gCh=zl2ohautS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages compressed with xz X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:09:06 -0000 --Sig_/_R6GZABkA+gCh=zl2ohautS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:12:48 -0500 Goran Tal wrote: > Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as > the default compression for packages. >=20 > Files compressed with xz are smaller and decompress faster than those > compressed with bzip2. This can make an installation much quicker, > especially when the complete system is installed or upgraded. >=20 > Any reasons against it? Sigh. We enabled that in HEAD, and after some testing and adapting {base_OS, ports, tools, etc.} to support that, it will probably become the default. One thing against it is the major increase in package time (up to 6x, but by no means this is a show-stopper). Resulting packages would be, in medium about 30% smaller (in medium, for some kinds of data the size is the same as for gzip). So no, there's no reason against it, just some time is need to adapt everything. --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> itetcu@FreeBSD.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B --Sig_/_R6GZABkA+gCh=zl2ohautS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzyzs8ACgkQJ7GIuiH/oeW1nQCghLrNS+9hAZCnzeSNzuWWuVRD GzMAnjg9JwoAC0HpHi8qnxmZa5Siusvv =gZ3V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/_R6GZABkA+gCh=zl2ohautS--