From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 29 18:31:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA23372 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:31:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de [160.45.24.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA23367 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Tue, 30 Sep 97 02:31 MEST Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for ports@freebsd.org id ; Tue, 30 Sep 97 01:31 MET Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04504; Mon, 29 Sep 97 18:49:39 +0200 Message-Id: <19970929184938.00144@wavehh.hanse.de> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:49:38 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! References: <9709291305.AA03675@wavehh.hanse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from patl@phoenix.volant.org on Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 08:09:02AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In , 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/