Dear developers, I did experiment with using 7z for gzip compression for control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz components of the deb packages. Then I tried also recompress all gzip files inside the data.tar.gz and finally also tried the xz for comparison. Here are results:
0) 1132 packages (I used my apt cache): 1 076 539kB - 100% 1) recompress the control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz: 1 038 391kB - 96.5% 2) + recompress all *.gz files inside the data.tar.gz: 1 022 712kB - 95.0% 3) like 1) but with xz: 752 202kB - 69.9% 4) like 2) but with xz: 727 946kB - 67.6% Are the numbers for 1) and 2) interesting enough to do something in this direction? Have a nice day, TonyMi Notes: I used "7z a -tgzip -mx9 file.gz file". My "recompress" scripts are very easy and cannot handle correctly all situations so the result is not 100% precise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
