Ah. I don't think this mailing list is for me. Thank you for your time.
On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 7:31 PM Eli Schwartz <eschwa...@archlinux.org> wrote: > > On 12/5/19 8:03 PM, Jeffrey Fetterman wrote: > > Hey, I'm not the one who decided that both zipballs and tarballs on > > GitHub should use DEFLATE compression on random files. > I'm genuinely not sure if you're trolling. The url you used is an HTTP > 302 redirect to > > Location: https://codeload.github.com/mirror/busybox/legacy.tar.gz/master > > Which in turn specifies: > > Content-Type: application/x-gzip > Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename=mirror-busybox-1_31_0-98-g9ec836c.tar.gz > > But most people don't bother using the legacy API, and instead use the > publicly linked urls like > https://github.com/mirror/busybox/archive/master.tar.gz > > Which is a 302 redirect to: > > Location: https://codeload.github.com/mirror/busybox/tar.gz/master > > Which in turn declares: > > Content-Type: application/x-gzip > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=busybox-master.tar.gz > > So, I'm bewildered why you would be surprised that a compressed tarball > would be "randomly compressed", and I'm not sure why you are blaming > github for ruining your experiment or whatever. You want to experiment > with how tar decompresses files from a pipe? I suggest you use > > gzip <infile.tar | busybox tar -xf - > > This produce controllable experiments where you know and can account for > your inputs. > > P.S. I'm unaware of anyone hosting software forges, git-based or > otherwise, who offer non-compressed tarballs for download. It would be > stupid of them to offer it, because why on earth would you go ahead and > shoot your own bandwidth in the foot like that? > > How did you get into the developer API documentation of github without > realizing this fact? > > -- > Eli Schwartz > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User > > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > busybox@busybox.net > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox