From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15288 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2016 12:59:56 -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 15267 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jan 2016 12:59:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=grown, suddenly, H*UA:Webmail X-HELO: lb3-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net Received: from lb3-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net (HELO lb3-smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net) (194.109.24.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:59:54 +0000 Received: from webmail.xs4all.nl ([194.109.20.205]) by smtp-cloud6.xs4all.net with ESMTP id 9Qzr1s0094RV18J01Qzrxu; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:59:51 +0100 Received: from a83-162-234-136.adsl.xs4all.nl ([83.162.234.136]) by webmail.xs4all.nl with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:59:51 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:35:00 -0000 From: Houder To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why? Message-ID: X-Sender: houder@xs4all.nl (pXBfFPagp81qNOH1I9IgPQ==) User-Agent: XS4ALL Webmail X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 Hi Corinna, 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 ... Regards, Henri -- 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