From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 80699 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2016 14:35:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 80670 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jan 2016 14:35:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: Yes, score=6.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_60,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,RCVD_IN_PSBL,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*UA:Bat!, H*x:Bat!, H*UA:Home, H*x:Home X-HELO: smtp.ht-systems.ru Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (HELO smtp.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:35:18 +0000 Received: from [95.165.144.62] (helo=darkdragon.lan) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) (Authenticated sender: postmaster@rootdir.org) id 1aMzHT-0000l4-TT ; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:35:12 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:21:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 18:10:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1211985131.20160123172147@yandex.ru> To: Houder , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why? In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00313.txt.bz2 Greetings, Houder! > Just curious if there is a reason ... > I was able to extract cygpath.exe from cygwin-inst-20160121.tar.xz > (snapshots) > in order to test your last modification to cygpath.cc. No problem here. > However, when examining the contents of the archive, I was surprised to > find > the SAME version of cygpath.exe at least three times ... > The size of cygwin-inst-.tar.xz (and cygwin-src-.tar.xz) has > grown > (suddenly) by a factor of 3 or 4 since 2015-07-20 ... > The same applies to winsup-src-.tar.xz (since 2016-01-15) ... > In all cases it is because the archive contains the SAME version of a > file at > least three times (as far as I can tell). > To summarize: No, I am not reporting a problem here; I am just _curious_ > as to > why these archive are so much bigger than they (apparently) need to be > ... But this is actually a problem. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/x86/cygwin-inst-20160121.tar All tools reporting from 3 to 5 entries of each file in the archive. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, January 23, 2016 17:17:59 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple