[LTP] Tarballs in Files section @ sf.net

[LTP] Tarballs in Files section @ sf.net

[Sedat Dilek]

Hi,

why do you name your BZ2-tarballs with the right and common
file-extensions ".tar.bz2"?

$ file ltp-full-20130109.bz2
ltp-full-20130109.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k

$ bunzip2 ltp-full-20130109.bz2

$ file ltp-full-20130109
ltp-full-20130109: POSIX tar archive (GNU)

$ tar -xf ltp-full-20130109

$ ls -l
insgesamt 12
drwxrwxr-x  3 wearefam wearefam 4096 Jan 16 14:33 ./
drwxrwxr-x  3 wearefam wearefam 4096 Jan 16 14:33 ../
drwxr-xr-x 16 wearefam wearefam 4096 Jan  9 10:21 ltp-full-20130109/

And why don't you use XZ compressor? Even traditional GNU folks
switched to efficient XZ :-).

$ tar -c --xz -f ltp-full-20130109.tar.xz ltp-full-20130109/

$ tar -c --bzip2 -f ltp-full-20130109.tar.bz2 ltp-full-20130109/

$ du -k ltp-full-20130109.tar.bz2 ltp-full-20130109.tar.xz
3688    ltp-full-20130109.tar.bz2
2892    ltp-full-20130109.tar.xz

796KiB file-size saved!

Thanks!

Regards,
- Sedat -

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Re: [LTP] Tarballs in Files section @ sf.net

[chrubis]

Hi!
> why do you name your BZ2-tarballs with the right and common
> file-extensions ".tar.bz2"?

That is something that just has been this way longer than anybody could
remeber. I guess we can change it to tar.bz2 for next releases.

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Re: [LTP] Tarballs in Files section @ sf.net

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jan 16, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> why do you name your BZ2-tarballs with the right and common
> file-extensions ".tar.bz2"?
> 
> $ file ltp-full-20130109.bz2
> ltp-full-20130109.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
> 
> $ bunzip2 ltp-full-20130109.bz2
> 
> $ file ltp-full-20130109
> ltp-full-20130109: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
> 
> $ tar -xf ltp-full-20130109
> 
> $ ls -l
> insgesamt 12
> drwxrwxr-x  3 wearefam wearefam 4096 Jan 16 14:33 ./
> drwxrwxr-x  3 wearefam wearefam 4096 Jan 16 14:33 ../
> drwxr-xr-x 16 wearefam wearefam 4096 Jan  9 10:21 ltp-full-20130109/
> 
> And why don't you use XZ compressor? Even traditional GNU folks
> switched to efficient XZ :-).

Xz didn't become popular until the last couple years. Ltp has been around for a while and still supports old releases of Linux. How far back has never really been clearly communicated afaict.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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Re: [LTP] Tarballs in Files section @ sf.net

[chrubis]

Hi!
> Xz didn't become popular until the last couple years. Ltp has been
> around for a while and still supports old releases of Linux. How far
> back has never really been clearly communicated afaict.

The most usuall solution is to provide both bz2 and xz and let the users
choose.

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Re: [LTP] Tarballs in Files section @ sf.net

[chrubis]

Hi!
> First, I was really happy when I wanted today to stress my Linux-Next
> (next-20130503) kernels.
> 
> 4 hours ago LTP-full 2013-05-03 was released.
> Cool, I said.
> 
> Looking at ltp-full-20130503.bz2 ...
> 
> ...is still a TAR-archive when unpacked.
> 
> An XZ-Tar-archive as demanded by me and promised by you was NOT prepared.
> 
> That makes me a bit of Grrr...
> Hereby my reminder, again!

I mailed Shubham from IBM (who does the releases) to include the xz and
rename the bz2 just a few minutes ago (even before I've read this mail).
Hopefully he will fix this during the day.

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Re: [LTP] Tarballs in Files section @ sf.net

[chrubis]

Hi!
> >> First, I was really happy when I wanted today to stress my Linux-Next
> >> (next-20130503) kernels.
> >>
> >> 4 hours ago LTP-full 2013-05-03 was released.
> >> Cool, I said.
> >>
> >> Looking at ltp-full-20130503.bz2 ...
> >>
> >> ...is still a TAR-archive when unpacked.
> >>
> >> An XZ-Tar-archive as demanded by me and promised by you was NOT prepared.
> >>
> >> That makes me a bit of Grrr...
> >> Hereby my reminder, again!
> > I mailed Shubham from IBM (who does the releases) to include the xz and
> > rename the bz2 just a few minutes ago (even before I've read this mail).
> > Hopefully he will fix this during the day.
> >
> 
> I replaced the sf.net download file to "ltp-full-20130503.tar.xz". Hope 
> this helps...

Thanks.

Could you please also rename the ltp-full-20130503.bz2 to
ltp-full-20130503.tar.bz2 to reflect its content?

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Re: [LTP] Tarballs in Files section @ sf.net

[chrubis]

Hi!
> >>>> First, I was really happy when I wanted today to stress my Linux-Next
> >>>> (next-20130503) kernels.
> >>>>
> >>>> 4 hours ago LTP-full 2013-05-03 was released.
> >>>> Cool, I said.
> >>>>
> >>>> Looking at ltp-full-20130503.bz2 ...
> >>>>
> >>>> ...is still a TAR-archive when unpacked.
> >>>>
> >>>> An XZ-Tar-archive as demanded by me and promised by you was NOT prepared.
> >>>>
> >>>> That makes me a bit of Grrr...
> >>>> Hereby my reminder, again!
> >>> I mailed Shubham from IBM (who does the releases) to include the xz and
> >>> rename the bz2 just a few minutes ago (even before I've read this mail).
> >>> Hopefully he will fix this during the day.
> >>>
> >> I replaced the sf.net download file to "ltp-full-20130503.tar.xz". Hope
> >> this helps...
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Could you please also rename the ltp-full-20130503.bz2 to
> > ltp-full-20130503.tar.bz2 to reflect its content?
> >
> 
> I already did that. The download file name is "ltp-full-20130503.tar.xz" 
> now. I think this is better than "ltp-full-20130503.tar.bz2".

Sure, but we decided to serve both files the .bz2 and .xz for
compatibility with older distros. But the bz2 had historically wrong
suffix (missing the .tar). I would like to have that one fixed too, and
from what I can say the sourceforge serves me still the
ltp-full-20130503.bz2. Or is this intentional to stay backwards
compatible?

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