Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:18:30 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: compress INDEX with xz, instead of bz2? Message-ID: <20120707191830.GA83424@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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A very minor point # make fetchindex /usr/ports/INDEX-10.bz2 100% of 1621 kB 208 kBps # ls -al INDEX-10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26284787 Jul 7 20:08 INDEX-10 # xz INDEX-10 # ls -al INDEX-10.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1350156 Jul 7 20:08 INDEX-10.xz # So xz saves ~19% compared to bz2 for this file. Now that xz is in the base, perhaps making INDEX available compressed with xz would help some people who are still on slow download lines. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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