.tar.bz2 as package format?

tradiaz · 2009-06-27 10:05:56

Hi all!
I'm doing an update of 1,2gb (yeah, I often save it up for months).
An because of my lousy connection speed, the idea of using bzip2 compression instead of gzip came to my mind.
I think for most users the connection speed and not cpu is the bottleneck... maybe make a poll?
Plus this would disburden the mirror server because of lesser traffic.
What do you think of it?

Procyon · 2009-06-27 10:30:29

First, find that 1.2 GB in your cache folder, gunzip each and bzip2 each. How much does it save?

wuischke · 2009-06-27 10:31:49

I believe there are plans to use tar.xs (lzma, like 7zip) > http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 11776.html

.:B:. · 2009-06-27 22:24:30

You might as well use xz - takes even less space, and sure as hell be done a lot quicker .

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#1 2009-06-27 10:05:56

.tar.bz2 as package format?

#2 2009-06-27 10:30:29

Re: .tar.bz2 as package format?

#3 2009-06-27 10:31:49

Re: .tar.bz2 as package format?

#4 2009-06-27 22:24:30

Re: .tar.bz2 as package format?

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