* lzma instead of bzip2 for packages compression ?
@ 2012-04-24 16:21 Jérôme Bouat
2012-04-24 16:27 ` Eric Blake
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From: Jérôme Bouat @ 2012-04-24 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hello,
The cygwin 'tar.bz2' packages are created once and broadcasted to many hosts.
The lzma compression is fast for decompression. Could we possibly get the packages with lzma compression ?
We could set the right parameters in order to fit a maximum memory limit that would be required for decompression.
Regards.
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* Re: lzma instead of bzip2 for packages compression ?
2012-04-24 16:21 lzma instead of bzip2 for packages compression ? Jérôme Bouat
@ 2012-04-24 16:27 ` Eric Blake
2012-04-24 17:17 ` Jérôme Bouat
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From: Eric Blake @ 2012-04-24 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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On 04/24/2012 10:21 AM, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> The cygwin 'tar.bz2' packages are created once and broadcasted to many
> hosts.
>
> The lzma compression is fast for decompression. Could we possibly get
> the packages with lzma compression ?
lzma is obsolete. If anything, we want xz.
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* Re: lzma instead of bzip2 for packages compression ?
2012-04-24 16:27 ` Eric Blake
@ 2012-04-24 17:17 ` Jérôme Bouat
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From: Jérôme Bouat @ 2012-04-24 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
In case you want to use xz, the '--extreme' option prevides a higher compression ratio than lzma with the same memory requirement for decompression.
Le 24/04/2012 18:27, Eric Blake a écrit :
> On 04/24/2012 10:21 AM, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> The cygwin 'tar.bz2' packages are created once and broadcasted to many
>> hosts.
>>
>> The lzma compression is fast for decompression. Could we possibly get
>> the packages with lzma compression ?
>
> lzma is obsolete. If anything, we want xz.
>
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