Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:31:26 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: jkh@winston.freebsd.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org, winter@jurai.net, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, pst@pst.org, des@ofug.org, imp@village.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade Message-ID: <20020403233126.GL29594@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <200204031827.g33IR39r046085@aldan.algebra.com> References: <28699.1017857530@winston.freebsd.org> <200204031827.g33IR39r046085@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:27:03PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Oh, "experience" -- what a great marketing word! It isn't pleasant,
> if each package is 20% bigger than it can be (.gz vs. bz2) and someone
> is advocating another 20% (?) bump (.zip vs. tar.gz). And why? Because
Doubling numbers to make a point doesn't do much for your
credibility. The FreeBSD 4.3 package set (disc1) is about 10% smaller
when compressed with bzip2, not 20%. Someone on portmgr recently ran
the same test with the 4.5 packages and came up with the same number
(~10%).
David O'Brien is working on adding bzip2 support for packages,
distributions, and kernel modules to sysinstall. I agree that moving
to bzip2 will make CD-ROM installs more pleasant.
- Murray
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