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Re: suggestion to use lzma for snapshots, maybe more?
- From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc at vinc17 dot org>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:36:28 +0100
- Subject: Re: suggestion to use lzma for snapshots, maybe more?
- References: <4B4D1692.6020704@earlham.edu>
On 2010-01-12 19:40:50 -0500, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> I was idly looking through a couple of snapshots of the gcc -trunk line.
> I am by no means a compiler developer, but I did notice that you aren't
> using lzma for compression. I don't know if bandwidth is at all a
> concern, but I can point to a >20% drop in download size:
>
> $ svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk gcc-trunk
> ...
> $ find gcc-trunk -name ".svn" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
> $ tar -cf - gcc-trunk | lzma --best > gcc-trunk.tlz &
> $ tar -cf - gcc-trunk | bzip2 --best > gcc-trunk.tbz &
[...]
lzma (the file format) is obsolete and has been replaced by xz.
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