Re: [Leaf-devel] Packaging

[Ewald Wasscher]

David Douthitt wrote:

> 
> bzip2 is supposed to be pretty good; why not use root.tgz and all the
> rest are *.bgz or whatever the standard is.... but then, there
> probably isn't any.  The zip code for root.tgz is contained within the
> kernel, so you could actually remove gzip and use bzip2.  The only
> problem is you couldn't modify root.tgz ...
> 
And another problem is that any conventional root.lrp contains glibc and 
busybox and ash, which is probably the largest part of most lrp systems. 
I wonder if it will pay off in terms of diskspace to have a larger 
root.lrp (with bzip2 added) when you can only compress non-root packages 
with bzip2

Ewald Wasscher


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