Re: 2.6.38-rc2 tarballs? XZ-compressed source tarballs?

[Piotr Hosowicz]

On 22.01.2011 12:30, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> 2011/1/22 Piotr Hosowicz<piotr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 22.01.2011 12:00, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering why there are no 2.6.38-rc2 tarballs available in testing/
> > > [1].
> >
> > Me too.
>
> I had to be more precise... there is only TAR.GZ tarball [1].

Yes, I expected tar.bz2 linked to the main page.

> $ cd ~/src/linux-2.6
>
> $ tar -xf files/linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
>
> $ tar --use-compress-program=xz -cf files/linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
> linux-2.6.38-rc2/
>
> $ ls -l linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sd sd 94091552 22. Jan 04:57 linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sd sd 64857696 22. Jan 12:25 linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
>
> $ du -h linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> 90M     linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
> 62M     linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
>
> $ du -k linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> 91892   linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
> 63344   linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
>
> $ file linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last
> modified: Sat Jan 22 04:33:14 2011, max compression
> linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz: XZ compressed data
>
> Default compression-level of XZ is 6 (9 is best), so a 28M smaller
> tarball as a number speaks for itself.

Wow!

Regards,

Piotr Hosowicz

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