Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:49:38 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! Message-ID: <19970929184938.00144@wavehh.hanse.de> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.3.875545742.5627.patl@asimov>; from patl@phoenix.volant.org on Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 08:09:02AM -0700 References: <9709291305.AA03675@wavehh.hanse.de> <ML-3.3.875545742.5627.patl@asimov>
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In <ML-3.3.875545742.5627.patl@asimov>, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > > >The FreeBSD-current packages collection currently requires 713MB, not > > >counting the filename information itself (which, on CDs, is stored > > >very wastefully and generally accounts for another 30-40MB in cases > > >like this where you have hundreds of files). I don't need to tell > > >anyone here that 750MB does *not* fit on a single CD, and even with > > >4 CDs for 3.0 we're going to run into problems just organizing it. > > What are the sizes if we put the basic English versions on CD A > and the other languages on B ? That split should generate a set > of dependancy trees where packages on A never depend on packages > on B. Sounds good. > > bzip2 compresses somewhat better than gzip. The sum of file sizes in > > my pkg dir is 493972390 with gzip and 447683380 with bzip2 -9 (don't > > ask my boss what our one P6 did all morning :-) > > Is that gzip's default compression ratio, or gzip -9 ? Whatever Jordan uses to produce them, it looks like -9. BTW, it seems you don't generate CC: headers for all addresses in this discussion, looks like you sent individual message to -ports and me. This does't allow me to reply to all using a group reply. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin.Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg/Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/
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