Hello Benjamin! On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 13:51 +0200 schrieb Laszlo Kajan: >> Hello Andreas! >> >> On 23/04/13 12:23, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: >>>> >>>> This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that >>>> depend on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. >>> >>> In your practical case is this data say <500MB? Are we talking about >>> compressed or uncompressed data (= >400MB on users harddisk or on all >>> Debian mirrors world-wide)? >> >> It is around 404MB, gzip compressed [1]. I think it is not arch >> independent. I think BLAST databases (the main bulk in the tar.gz) are >> sensitive >> to the size of int, and endian-ness. >> >> [1] ftp://rostlab.org/metastudent/metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar.gz > > You can use xz for the source and binary package to reduce the size. The > default compression level for xz reduces the size of the source tarball > from 415 MB to 272 MB: > > $ ls -1s --si metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar* > 823M metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar > 381M metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar.bz2 > 415M metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar.gz > 272M metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar.xz > $ ls -1sh metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar* > 784M metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar > 363M metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar.bz2 > 396M metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar.gz > 259M metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar.xz
Ah great! Thanks for checking this. A lesson for the future. We will switch to xz. Best regards, Laszlo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5176f4e6.2000...@rostlab.org