On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:12:00PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Do we have plans for lenny to enable the use of bzip2 instead of gzip > for the upstream orig.tar source tarballs? Does dpkg/apt support this > already or has this already been thought about? > > This would reduce our archive size by some 20% if all packages moved to > bzip2.
Why not lzma? It reduces size even more and doesn't suffer from the "all our code belongs to propietary programs" licensing curse. http://www.linuks.mine.nu/sizematters/ (look for p7zip here; same algorithm, different implementation) It can be used for data.tar as well. The dpkg shipped in etch had support for unpacking it, so technicaly we can do it. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
