Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>    The present LiveCD contents can be better compressed to
> free up several tens of MBs more. Firstly Distro Constructor
> is calling lofiadm -C <filename> whereas it should call
> lofiadm -C gzip-9 <filename>. Even while compressing the
> microroot gzip -9 should be invoked.
>   
Is this something we want to get into DC now? If so, let's open a bug and
I'll get it in by the end of the week.
> Secondly 7Zip (p7zip package) has the ability to compress
> in Gzip format but achieve better compression than Gzip itself.
> The resulting archive can be extracted by gunzip and does not
> impact decompression time. However lofiadm will need to be
> enhanced with a new algorithm type: gzip-7z
>
> In addition the archive file can also be compressed with
> 7za.
>   
These look like they're longer term issues. Correct?

Jean
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>
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