On 9 November 2012 00:54, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:39:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org> writes: >> >> > I would like to have a nocompress Debian build option that will skip any >> > compression/optimisation at build time. >> >> > Specifically dpkg-builddeb and dpkg-source should use not use any >> > compression methods. >> >> Why do you think this would be of any benefit? gzip compression is pretty >> fast. It seems unlikely to me that this is a substantial bottleneck. > > Why would you ever use gzip if you have a choice? xz has speed parity with > gzip -9 at somewhere between levels 2 and 3, with greatly better > compression. Just use xz -0. >
Interesting to know. I am after pure speed only, so surely compression `dpkg-deb -Znone` will be the least amount of CPU time for debs. Exact flags can be tweaked, as long as we agree on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocompress=1 to begin with. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUh+9dEpM+2CnMjug-ZouZsXpYAve8S=gqwdsv6obvn...@mail.gmail.com
