From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:42:07 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Improved git download method performance. In-Reply-To: <201201061740.10676.minimod@morethan.org> References: <54DB0A5039192D48A770D406992C75BC28EC825859@DFW1MBX21.mex07a.mlsrvr.com> <201201061740.10676.minimod@morethan.org> Message-ID: <20120107104207.1a874edc@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:40:08 -0600, "Michael S. Zick" a ?crit : > > Also the $($(PKG)_SOURCE) default is changed to .tar instead > > of .tar.gz. This removes unneeded compression and decompression. > > But some parts of the world charge per/byte still. The move to .tar only changes the fact that tarball are saved uncompressed in the $(DL_DIR). It does not change anything to the amount of data transferred over the network, if I understand correctly. But it's true that the size difference of a Linux kernel tarball uncompressed and compressed is quite significant. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com