The database is already in a manually optimized binary format. The default 
bzip2 compresses it from 11GB to 9GB...
 

On Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:43:11 PM UTC+1, P Purkayastha wrote:
>
> On 04/18/2013 07:19 PM, Volker Braun wrote: 
> > On Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:42:57 AM UTC+1, P Purkayastha wrote: 
> > 
> >     How did you compress it? You can try using lrzip to achieve some 
> more 
> >     compression. See https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip 
> >     <https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip> 
> > 
> > 
> > I doubt that this'll turn it into a "small" spkg though ;-) 
>
> Well, not "small", but it could be substantially smaller if the source 
> files are mostly text files. The following website contains some details 
> on compressing the linux sources or sources of size up to 10G: 
> http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/README.benchmarks 
>
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