From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:17:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP11A764536EF320027345F8AE200@CEZ.ICE> (raw)
Message-ID: <20060921171747.9ae2b42e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060921204250.GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:42:50 -0400
Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:32:57PM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > Today as I was watching the linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 slowly download I
> > thought it would be nice if it could be made smaller.
[...]
> But after you download it once, you can just get the diff next time.
> How is the decompression time on 7zip versus bzip2 and gzip?
Not to mention that by using Git it will take care of all that for you.
Downloading only the updates with no need for you to manually apply diffs
etc..
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-21 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-21 20:32 Dax Kelson
[not found] ` <20060921204250 .GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
2006-09-21 20:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-21 21:40 ` Dax Kelson
2006-09-22 14:00 ` Lennart Sorensen
[not found] ` <20060921171747.9ae2b42e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 21:17 ` Sean [this message]
2006-09-21 21:41 ` Dax Kelson
2006-09-21 21:50 ` Bob Copeland
[not found] ` <20060921175717.272c58ee.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 21:57 ` Sean
2006-09-21 22:00 ` David Lang
2006-09-21 22:24 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-21 22:16 ` David Lang
2006-09-21 22:40 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-21 22:34 ` David Lang
[not found] ` <20060921193823.ec49d446.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 23:38 ` Sean
[not found] ` <Pin e.LNX.4.63.0609211455570.17238@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
2006-09-21 22:25 ` Sean
[not found] ` <20060921182554.23044ca3.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 22:20 ` David Lang
2006-09-21 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 14:00 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-22 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 16:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-22 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 17:41 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-09-22 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 18:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-09-22 18:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-25 11:51 ` Paulo Marques
2006-09-25 15:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-10-02 3:35 Drew Scott Daniels
2006-10-02 3:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-10-02 3:35 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <Pi ne.LNX.4.63.0610012205280.28534@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
2006-10-02 5:11 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 5:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-02 15:16 ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-02 15:48 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 20:20 ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-02 20:12 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 20:35 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <2006 1002203527.GA585@1wt.eu>
2006-10-02 21:49 ` Sean
[not found] ` <20061002174938.bb82027d.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-10-02 21:42 ` David Lang
2006-10-03 2:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-03 10:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-03 18:24 ` Phillip Susi
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