Le 28/09/2010 10:26, Ashley Pittman a écrit : > On 28 Sep 2010, at 07:27, Brice Goglin wrote: > > >> The bz2 tarball of hwloc 1.0.2 was 2.1MB. hwloc 1.1 will be at least >> 2.7MB. I know that bandwidth is free, but I am still not confortable >> with the size increasing that much. >> >> Any other idea? >> > There is probably some mileage in simply unziping the tarballs in the tests > directory. This will increase the size of the source tree but probably > decrease the size of the download. > > Other ideas would be ensuring that the download is compressed with --best or > using bzip2 >
Indeed, thanks! > As an aside having files names *.tar.gz.output violates the principal of > least surprise, it's not clear to a casual user what these are? > IIRC, it was just a lazy way to generate the output filename from the tarball filename without having to remove the .tar.gz suffix :) Brice
