856385 – quickpkg uses bzip2

Bug 856385 - quickpkg uses bzip2

Summary: quickpkg uses bzip2

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2022-07-04 12:33 UTC by Sergey 'L29Ah' Alirzaev
Modified:	2022-10-20 02:00 UTC (History)
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Description Sergey 'L29Ah' Alirzaev 2022-07-04 12:33:31 UTC

bzip2 is slow, doesn't support multithreading and generally is inefficient compared to lzma/zstd. No good reason to use it.

`man make.conf` suggests that BINPKG_COMPRESS governs this and defaults to zstd, yet on my system with latest portage and no BINPKG_COMPRESS instances in /etc, bzip2 is used for some strange reason.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2022-07-04 20:15:15 UTC

You probably just need to set BINPKG_COMPRESS=zstd, since for existing installs it defaults to bzip2 for backward compatibility.