Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 1997 17:46:17 +0200 (EET) | From | Tuukka Toivonen <> | Subject | RE: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists? |
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On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Peter T. Waltenberg wrote:
>Nothing :), if you look on ftp.kernel.org you'll see all these .bz2 files. > >Incidentally, scripts/patch-kernel needs updating to handle the new option.
scripts/patch-kernel really should handle patch-x.y.z files in addition to *.gz and *.bz/*.bz2, so that the patches shouldn't need to be compressed (for example, if I'd have an imaginary super-compression program whizbang, and the kernel patches were compressed using it, I have to first uncompress the patches "whizunbang patch-*.wb" and the compress again, with "gzip patch-*").
Or maybe one should be able the tell patch-kernel the used filename extension and the used compression program.
Or better, both.
I have been using bzip-0.21 for a quite a long time now, and it has been working well. It is slower than gzip, *especially* if you're low of memory, but not 10 times, as someone said (except, of course, in special cases -- or when the data doesn't fit into memory). I don't suppose bzip2 is much different, so it is really worth of using (bzip2 should actually be faster than 0.21).
Leaving the *.gz patches/kernels too is good idea too, because bzip really can be easily 10 times slower than gzip, if one has only 4-8 megs of memory. Or maybe some people may be too lazy to install bzip.
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