On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 20:11 -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > Yes, I know. The mirrors! The mirrors! They will have to download the > > equivalent of 1.5 times a full release! > > An alternative would be to repack only the binary tarballs, not the > source ones. The -src tarballs are generally barely compressed anyway > (since the bulk of the contents is a compressed tarball which doesn't > gain anything by recompression), so the few bytes we'd save by switching > them from bz2 to xz certainly aren't worth the bandwidth it would cost > to update the mirrors.
FWIW, I tried this with a copy of the Ports repo, and the disk usage savings was ~8.26% (10614 MiB -> 9736.61 MiB). A similar result with the distro would shrink release/ from ~7358 MiB to 6750 MiB. Yaakov
