From owner-freebsd-libh Mon Oct 30 13: 6:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from dnai.com (dnai.com [207.181.194.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABC237B4C5; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:06:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from neptune.dnai.com (neptune.dnai.com [207.181.194.93]) by dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA38332; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:06:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from acm.org (207-172-166-73.s73.tnt1.sfrn.ca.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.166.73]) by neptune.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA11324; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:06:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <39FDE2A0.C2CEF041@acm.org> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:05:36 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle Reply-To: kientzle@acm.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Alexander Langer , libh@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: BOF at BSDCon: FreeBSD Installer, Packages System 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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