[Bug 986786] Re: [MASTER] larger packages should use lzma compression
Jérôme
986786 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sat Jul 21 18:21:44 UTC 2012
Maybe you should use the "--extreme" option of the xz compression since
it allows to save additionnal size for the archives.
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Title:
[MASTER] larger packages should use lzma compression
Status in “app-install-data-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Anyway, the software center requires a lot of memory.
Up to 3% of archive size could be saved :
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j at dt-X64:~/tmp$ 7z x /var/cache/apt/archives/app-install-data_0.12.04.4_all.deb
7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=fr_FR.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)
Processing archive: /var/cache/apt/archives/app-install-
data_0.12.04.4_all.deb
Extracting data.tar
Everything is Ok
Size: 11714560
Compressed: 7176706
j at dt-X64:~/tmp$ ls
data.tar
j at dt-X64:~/tmp$ gzip --best --stdout data.tar > data.tar.gz
j at dt-X64:~/tmp$ bzip2 --best --stdout data.tar > data.tar.bz2
j at dt-X64:~/tmp$ lzma --best --stdout data.tar > data.tar.lzma
j at dt-X64:~/tmp$ xz -9e --stdout data.tar > data.tar.xz
j at dt-X64:~/tmp$ ll -h
total 38M
drwxr-xr-x 2 j j 4,0K avril 21 09:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x 23 j j 4,0K avril 21 09:27 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 j j 12M avril 17 13:03 data.tar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 j j 6,7M avril 21 09:30 data.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 j j 6,7M avril 21 09:30 data.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 j j 6,6M avril 21 09:30 data.tar.lzma
-rw-rw-r-- 1 j j 6,5M avril 21 09:31 data.tar.xz
j at dt-X64:~/tmp$
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: app-install-data 0.12.04.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 22 10:13:43 2012
Dependencies:
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: app-install-data-ubuntu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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