Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#2974 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Many packages now available as .tar.xz
| Reported by: | rafe | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | 7.1 |
| Component: | Book | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | trivial | Keywords: | xz packages |
| Cc: |
Description
With xz now part of the requirements it makes sense to use it. I checked for most LFS packages and found these all available in .tar.xz ( and texinfo in .lzma - works correctly with "tar xf pkg.tar.lzma" )
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.68.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.2.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.68.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-4.0.0.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.99.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.4.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.16.tar.xz http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.1.0/mpfr-3.1.0.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.6.1.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.26.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13a.tar.lzma http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.3.tar.xz
The LFS "home" packages could also be repacked, i.e. iana-etc & kbd-1.15.2 & bootscripts & module-init-tools & udev
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
| Priority: | normal → lowest |
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| Severity: | normal → trivial |
comment:2 by , 13 years ago
Regret, left out ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.14.1.tar.xz already since 2.11.
As for how much it saves ? How about 50 % ? glibc-2.14.1.tar.gz 20406 kB glibc-2.14.1.tar.xz 9884 kB Good enough for me Sir.
follow-up: 4 comment:3 by , 13 years ago
I guess I wasn't clear. How significant is 10M when disks are measured in TB? We don't download over a 300 baud modem any more.
The entire LFS7 package set is 295M including patches. A reduction of less than 10% overall is just not significant.
User's are free to use any format they desire - gz, bz2, xz, etc.
I don't even have a problem with using the xz format of a package when a new version is incorporated in the book, but I am not in favor of revising the book for current package versions just to reduce the download size by 10-20M.
comment:4 by , 13 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Replying to bdubbs@…:
I don't even have a problem with using the xz format of a package when a new version is incorporated in the book, but I am not in favor of revising the book for current package versions just to reduce the download size by 10-20M.
Agreed, and that's the approach I've been taking. If a package is upgraded in the book, I've checked for and used the .xz version if available. Marking as WONTFIX due to there not being a WILLFIXGRADUALLY status :)
Why? How much does it save? Every package listed is now less than 3M. Some less than 1M. How much bandwidth is saved? Is that a significant amount?
Compare the savings to many individual blfs packages e.g python, php, ruby, qt, firefox, ...