Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 1997 23:50:55 -0500 (EST) | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: bzip2 for kernel dists? |
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On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Jordan Mendelson wrote: > > Has anyone thought of using bzip2 to compress the newer kernels instead of > gzip on linux.kernel.org & co? Yep - great minds and all that <G>.
> Even though I hate the name (come on, do I really want to type that stupid 2?) Hey, just rename the executable, and do some real minor code changes, and viola, it's bz.
> , it yeilds better compression than gzip. Much, even more so -9ed.
> It's being used in a few projects, egcs & glibc are the only ones I > can think of. And the gimp (GO GIMP!). (And the gtk&gdk, naturally).
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40744960 Dec 10 12:44 linux-2.1.72.tar > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9628900 Dec 10 12:44 linux-2.1.72.tar.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7822957 Dec 10 12:44 linux-2.1.72.tar.bz2 > > Maybe put both bz2 & gzip on so people who have bzip2 can uncompress it all? Naha, bloats the directory tree. how about kernel/ v2.1/ patch/ 2.1.71.diff 2.1.72.diff ... gz/ 2.1.71.tar.gz 2.1.72.tar.gz ... bzip2/ 2.1.71.tar.bzip2 2.1.72.tar.bzip2 ?
> Just a thought.. Thinking is good.
> > Jordan >
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