Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:05:36 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, libh@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BOF at BSDCon: FreeBSD Installer, Packages System Message-ID: <39FDE2A0.C2CEF041@acm.org> References: <39DCC860.B04F7D50@acm.org> <20001006155542.A29218@cichlids.cichlids.com> <39F3CDD7.15B889E7@acm.org> <20001023190412.B507@cichlids.cichlids.com> <39F47E98.4BB647AA@acm.org> <20001023202244.B10374@cichlids.cichlids.com> <39F48F4A.38D458C2@acm.org> <39FCF244.5A8C8E59@newsguy.com> <39FDC12E.304B0011@acm.org>
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Tim Kientzle wrote: > Though I haven't tested it, I wouldn't be surprised if > the ports tree was more than twice as large in ZIP format as > in tar.gz format. I just did a few quick tests against my FreeBSD 3.3 system to see how much you lose by switching from tar.gz to ZIP. I simply archived a couple of directories and compared the sizes: Directory tar.gz ZIP /usr/ports 7,601,675 15,008,530 /usr/src 50,896,742 62,536,891 /usr/bin 3,892,391 6,192,116 /usr/share/man 28,449,979 22,518,970 (!) I think it's pretty clear that building a single archive and then compressing the whole thing is necessary if you really want to build full-featured CD-ROM distributions. - Tim Kientzle P.S. /usr/share/man is an interesting example which works out larger in tar.gz format because the individual files are already gzipped. I suspect that you could get an archive smaller than 22MB by un-gzipping all the individual files and then building a tar.gz archive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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