Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On 1/16/06, John C. McCabe-Dansted <gmatht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 16:40, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > However, we don't currently have support for 7zip in .debs, so among the
> > available compression methods, bzip2 seems to outperform gzip on the
> > language packs.
>
> One thing to consider before changing to bzip2 is that, e.g. on my p4 1.5Ghz,
> it takes about 3sec/MB to decompress a bz2 file. Wide usuage of bz2 files
> on
> the official CD could significantly increase the required install time on
> older machines.
>

I'm also a user of older machines (I have installed Ubuntu on several
Celeron 300 & 650 MHz, to give these machines some extra life). My own
experience tells me that slower decompression isn't as big a factor as the
slower download time -- not only when installing but also when upgrading the
system. Also, keep in mind that slow machines aren't usually that fast at
seeking & reading from the CD either.

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