From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 13 15: 4:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB7737B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B4A43E8A for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:04:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9DM3NPQ057220; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g9DM3NGc057218; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:03:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200210132203.g9DM3NGc057218@apollo.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Old port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol "__sF") References: <20021013194319.7A31D2A88D@canning.wemm.org> <3DA9D95D.C1319A72@mindspring.com> <20021013205915.GK10829@hades.hell.gr> <3DA9EA62.D337E8A0@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> On 2002-10-13 13:36, Terry Lambert wrote: :> > I had upgraded the machine with a snapshot from the Japan snapshot :> > image server; apparently, no one ever thinks of compressiong ISO's, :> > so that was at the limit of what I could download. 8-(. :> > :> > It may be a good idea to put this flag in by default, at least until :> > 5.0-RELEASE, so that it will be there on the snapshots. :> :> That's a commonly asked question, and a very good answer is in the FAQ :P :> There are good reasons why the overworked snapshot servers do not :> attempt to compress the ISO images, which btw contain mostly .tgz files. : :Alternately, instead of believing someone's opinion, we could ask :the data in question: : :% ls -l :248643584 Sep 17 00:03 5.0-CURRENT-20020917-JPSNAP.iso :212988130 Oct 13 10:39 5.0-CURRENT-20020917-JPSNAP.iso.gz : :Compression gets rid of about 36MB. : :That's 3.4 hours saved on a 28.8K modem download time, overall... :a 14% reduction in size. Well, ok, but on a percentage basis you don't get much out of it. If someone is downloading via a modem they're probably doing it overnight anyway. bzip2 does even worse then gz in this instance, so no magic there either. -rw-r--r-- 1 dillon wheel 179985801 Oct 13 15:00 bzip2.bz2 (bzip2 -9) -rw-r--r-- 1 dillon wheel 178963831 Oct 13 14:56 gzip9.gz (gzip -9) -rw-r--r-- 1 dillon wheel 187006976 Jun 8 00:04 miniinst-RC4-8Jun2002.iso -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message