[arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Support xz compressed packages

[Pierre Schmitz]

Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 19:32:32 schrieb Andreas Radke:
> any idea how long it takes to compress OOo main package? as far as I
> know it needs a lot more time than gz/bz compression. does xz make use
> of SMP cpus? 
> 
> if not it's not an improvement and we should think about pbzip that now
> supports tar interaction and pipes!

SMP will be supported in the next version of xz. And yes, it takes a long time 
to compress openoffice. On my old PC it took 4 minutes to recompress. But 
package size went down from 166MB to 124MB. So, unless you can upload with 
more than 316 KByte/s (I hope I got that right ;-)) you are still faster. (and 
I know that your PC is a lot faster than mine)

So even if you only take your own time into account you still win. Adding the 
time/traffic decrease of all mirrors and users to our calculation we will 
clearly win.

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre