From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 29 08:11:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA15781 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA15771 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:11:43 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.65] by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0xFhU6-0002Q0-00; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:11:42 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA05136; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:11:39 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9709291305.AA03675@wavehh.hanse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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