Summary: | Compress (gzip) ebuilds in /usr/portage to save space | ||
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Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Jonathan Fors <etnoy> |
Component: | Enhancement/Feature Requests | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Jonathan Fors
2003-09-25 14:25:51 UTC
It won't save much, the major space problem is filesystem overhead. Most ebuilds occupy only one block. Rsync and cvs already compress things on transfer, so it wouldn't save bandwith either but increasing it as rsync's diff algorithm does not work well with compressed files. To get the best space savings put /usr/portage on a compressed loopback filesystem, that will be much more effective than compressing the ebuilds. |