Date: Mon, 29 Sep 97 15:05:36 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: jkh@time.cdrom.COM Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! Message-ID: <9709291305.AA03675@wavehh.hanse.de> References: <8460.875510079@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan wrote: >The FreeBSD-current packages collection currently requires 713MB, not >counting the filename information itself (which, on CDs, is stored >very wastefully and generally accounts for another 30-40MB in cases >like this where you have hundreds of files). I don't need to tell >anyone here that 750MB does *not* fit on a single CD, and even with >4 CDs for 3.0 we're going to run into problems just organizing it. bzip2 compresses somewhat better than gzip. The sum of file sizes in my pkg dir is 493972390 with gzip and 447683380 with bzip2 -9 (don't ask my boss what our one P6 did all morning :-) I have no experience how reliable it is. It's somewhere at http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/ Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin.Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg/Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/
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