Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-12-05 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 11:19:21PM +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: On 30 Nov 2010, at 03:16, jhell wrote: Agreed. Soon can be quantified by actual need and of which there is not much need except for larger packages but adding this would just add unneeded complication to the system

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-12-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:07:51 +0200 Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com wrote: 30.11.2010 04:40, Julien Laffaye wrote: You can specify limits during compression, so the question is should we do that so that hosts with N MB of RAM can decompress packages? Do we retain the compression ratio

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-12-05 Thread Eitan Adler
The biggest package that can be produced by a port it's a bit over 10G. Curious - which one? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-12-05 Thread Robert Huff
Eitan Adler writes: The biggest package that can be produced by a port it's a bit over 10G. Curious - which one? OpenOffice(-3)? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-12-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:41:29 -0500 Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:  Curious - which one?        OpenOffice(-3)? He told me on IRC - something in games/ $grep -R NO_PACKAGE /usr/ports/games :-) Hum, looks like either they got smaller or QAT doesn't have all the games packages

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-12-05 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
05.12.2010 18:03, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: And those ones are all empty at start. So say, if you are compressing something really huge trying to use 4G of memory you end using that much memory between 2G - 3G of source data. And we will need 512MB to decompress that hunk of data. Are the packages

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-12-04 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 30 Nov 2010, at 03:16, jhell wrote: Agreed. Soon can be quantified by actual need and of which there is not much need except for larger packages but adding this would just add unneeded complication to the system that is already in place. We are running out of diskspace on event the FTP

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-12-03 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
30.11.2010 04:40, Julien Laffaye wrote: You can specify limits during compression, so the question is should we do that so that hosts with N MB of RAM can decompress packages? Do we retain the compression ratio over bzip2 if we limit compression memory to 512 MB so that decompression would be

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-30 Thread perryh
Ion-Mihai Tetcu ite...@freebsd.org wrote: It would be nice to support xz(1) compression for large selective packages like firefox or openoffice as those will never run on smaller systems. Trouble is it ain't no way (CPU, space, banhdwidth on our side and space,bandwidth on our mirrors

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 28.11.2010 22:12, schrieb Goran Tal: Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as the default compression for packages. Files compressed with xz are smaller and decompress faster than those compressed with bzip2. This can make an installation much quicker

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread jhell
On 11/29/2010 06:24, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 28.11.2010 22:12, schrieb Goran Tal: Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as the default compression for packages. Files compressed with xz are smaller and decompress faster than those compressed with bzip2

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:31:10 -0500 jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: On 11/29/2010 06:24, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 28.11.2010 22:12, schrieb Goran Tal: Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as the default compression for packages. Files compressed with xz

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 29.11.2010 19:31, schrieb jhell: Adding to this, as the manual says... The decompressing host will need to have at minimal 5% - 20% of memory 'available' for decompression of what the compressing host had. Seeing as FreeBSD still runs on systems with memory as little as 200MB ~20% of

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:40:33AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: Yes, would be nice. I doubt it will happen soon. It's actually being looked at. As part of the extensive rework of the pointyhat scripts I did this summer, I attempted to factor out all the magic constants, including the

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread jhell
On 11/29/2010 18:40, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 29.11.2010 19:31, schrieb jhell: Adding to this, as the manual says... The decompressing host will need to have at minimal 5% - 20% of memory 'available' for decompression of what the compressing host had. Seeing as FreeBSD still runs on systems

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Julien Laffaye
On 11/29/2010 23:40, Matthias Andree wrote: You can specify limits during compression, so the question is should we do that so that hosts with N MB of RAM can decompress packages? Do we retain the compression ratio over bzip2 if we limit compression memory to 512 MB so that decompression would

packages compressed with xz

2010-11-28 Thread Goran Tal
Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as the default compression for packages. Files compressed with xz are smaller and decompress faster than those compressed with bzip2. This can make an installation much quicker, especially when the complete system is installed

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-28 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Hello, On 28/11/2010 22:12, Goran Tal wrote: Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as the default compression for packages. Files compressed with xz are smaller and decompress faster than those compressed with bzip2. This can make an installation much quicker

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-28 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:12:48 -0500 Goran Tal goran@gmail.com wrote: Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as the default compression for packages. Files compressed with xz are smaller and decompress faster than those compressed with bzip2. This can make