Y not u use bunzip2 for preparing linux builds?

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simy
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Y not u use bunzip2 for preparing linux builds?

Post by simy »

Hi,

using bz2 format instead of tar.gz will reduce quite a bit of size for linux builds.

I downloaded a tar.gz linux build, ( size above 9mb)

ls -l phoenix-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz gives 9573832 (9.1 mb) as the size

i unpacked it, made it a tar file ( tar -xf phoenix phoenix.tar )
and did
bzip2 -9 phoenix.tar

the resulting size of phoenix.tar.bz2 is 8952819 (8.5 mb, i think)

why not u post the bz2 image? it will reduce a lot of download time.
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Post by Gilles »

There a <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66358">bug</a> filed about that.
simy
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Post by simy »

read thru the bug-follow up... seems like no one cares about that bug..
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Post by David James »

Well that was a Mozilla bug... doesn't mean that Phoenix can't do it.
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