From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 0:31:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B2A37B405 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx02.egartech.com (aloha.egartech.com [62.118.81.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 157DD43E52 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from temik@egartech.com) Received: (qmail 96453 invoked by uid 85); 9 Jul 2002 07:31:09 -0000 Received: from temik@egartech.com by mx02.egartech.com with qmail-scanner-1.03 (. Clean. Processed in 0.32657 secs); 09 Jul 2002 07:31:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO turtle.egar.egartech.com) (192.168.8.4) by 0 with SMTP; 9 Jul 2002 07:31:08 -0000 Subject: RE: Package system flaws? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:31:10 +0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B29074171@turtle.egar.egartech.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Package system flaws? Thread-Index: AcImoq4qegn4HgCERkm+0pSgDV+EGwAdkFuA From: "Artem Tepponen" To: "Jefferson Harlough" , Cc: , , , Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Jefferson Harlough [mailto:xx_jayrod_x@hotmail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 9:13 PM > Would it be possible to replace the current compression=20 > algorithm(s) used in zip with the bzip2 compression algorithms? > Would that allow for a greater degree of compression while > still offering the benefits of the zip archive format? Yes, but it won't be zip. Major benefit of tar+bzip2 (or tar.gz) comes from the fact that compression algorithm (can) see all the files together and can use dictionary between files as opposed to per file dictionary in rar. Eslimates lie around 10-15% archive size reduction. > I'd have to ask that package size is considered as a very=20 > important part of the decision, and hopefully a system that=20 > allows for a high degree of compression will be used in the end. Sitting on a modem link I definitely agree. Artem Tepponen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message