Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:11:39 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! Message-ID: <ML-3.3.875545899.3010.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <9709291305.AA03675@wavehh.hanse.de>
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> >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. What are the sizes if we put all of the basic English packages on CD A and the other languages on B? That should yield a dependancy tree where packages on A never require packages on B. > 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 :-) Is that gzip's default compression or gzip -9 ? -Pat
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