On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:33:42PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Oh, okay. It would actually be much easier to standardize a way to switch
> to gzip compression than it would be to add a new concept of uncompressed
> packages.
The problem is: dpkg-deb with gzip is much slower than with bzip2 and xz
does not really add much. So you want none in this case.
| dpkg-deb: building package `linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64' in `test.none.deb'.
| dpkg-deb -Znone -b debian/linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 test.none.deb 0.12s
user 1.56s system 108% cpu 1.539 total
| dpkg-deb: building package `linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64' in `test.gzip.deb'.
| dpkg-deb -Zgzip -b debian/linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 test.gzip.deb 62.96s
user 1.78s system 101% cpu 1:03.77 total
| dpkg-deb: building package `linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64' in `test.bzip2.deb'.
| dpkg-deb -Zbzip2 -b debian/linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 test.bzip2.deb 12.48s
user 1.76s system 108% cpu 13.165 total
| dpkg-deb: building package `linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64' in `test.xz.deb'.
| dpkg-deb -Zxz -b debian/linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 test.xz.deb 103.27s user
2.66s system 101% cpu 1:44.35 total
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