From: Piotr Hosowicz <piotr@hosowicz.com>
To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.38-rc2 tarballs? XZ-compressed source tarballs?
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:39:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3AC20B.5020706@example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikaB_A7Oc+AvheGc3bEgTQUQ_KqiVp7Jwup=5-4@mail.gmail.com>
On 22.01.2011 12:30, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> 2011/1/22 Piotr Hosowicz<piotr@hosowicz.com>:
>> On 22.01.2011 12:00, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering why there are no 2.6.38-rc2 tarballs available in testing/
>>> [1].
>>
>> Me too.
>
> I had to be more precise... there is only TAR.GZ tarball [1].
Yes, I expected tar.bz2 linked to the main page.
> $ cd ~/src/linux-2.6
>
> $ tar -xf files/linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
>
> $ tar --use-compress-program=xz -cf files/linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
> linux-2.6.38-rc2/
>
> $ ls -l linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sd sd 94091552 22. Jan 04:57 linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sd sd 64857696 22. Jan 12:25 linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
>
> $ du -h linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> 90M linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
> 62M linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
>
> $ du -k linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> 91892 linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
> 63344 linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
>
> $ file linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last
> modified: Sat Jan 22 04:33:14 2011, max compression
> linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz: XZ compressed data
>
> Default compression-level of XZ is 6 (9 is best), so a 28M smaller
> tarball as a number speaks for itself.
Wow!
Regards,
Piotr Hosowicz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-22 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-22 11:00 2.6.38-rc2 tarballs? XZ-compressed source tarballs? Sedat Dilek
2011-01-22 11:06 ` Piotr Hosowicz
2011-01-22 11:30 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-01-22 11:39 ` Piotr Hosowicz [this message]
2011-01-22 14:26 ` Linus Torvalds
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