From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 29 16:07:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA17105 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA17094 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id BAA31681 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 01:08:16 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.6/brasil-1.2) with UUCP id BAA22385 for ports@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 01:07:11 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.7/keltia-2.10/nospam) id AAA26239; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:49:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970930004936.47437@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:49:36 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! References: <19970928234543.04027@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Vanderhoek on Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 06:32:10AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Tim Vanderhoek: > We could also try using the bzip compressor instead of gzip, but > I'm not sure about bzip's export status. It may compress > significantly better, though... It will probably do much better and get us a 10-20% saving. It will only be a temporary one and, much more important, bzip require as much as 5 times the memory of gzip ! -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #35: Sun Sep 21 19:28:07 CEST 1997