Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 22:35:51 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compress INDEX with xz, instead of bz2? Message-ID: <CADLo838Qr9cxC3wChixtGJt=6uhdPNOY-C7zPPRVUzLc2XMrFg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120707191830.GA83424@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20120707191830.GA83424@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Jul 7, 2012 8:19 PM, "Anton Shterenlikht" <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > 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. We still have to support 7.x, which does not have xz. Chris
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