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Bug 29613

Summary: Compress (gzip) ebuilds in /usr/portage to save space
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Jonathan Fors <etnoy>
Component: Enhancement/Feature RequestsAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: 2.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Jonathan Fors 2003-09-25 14:25:51 UTC
How about having compression to all ebuilds in /usr/portage?

That would save us a bundle of disk space.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-25 16:12:27 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.