Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> writes:

> Hi

Hi,
>
> Yesterday I changed the debug packages to use xz for compression. This
> reduces the size of the package from 450 to 250MiB.
>
> Next plan would be to use xz for the main image packages also. It
> reduces the size of the packages by 30% or so. It cost only little cpu,
> however the memory consumption raises.
>
> The especially space constraint architectures (arm I think) could
> convert to using XZ for the image files also. For the rest its simply
> 30% space less on disks while using some cpu.

afair, it's already enabled on armel (and maybe armhf) by default.

Arnaud


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipn9ayfl....@lebrac.rtp-net.org

Reply via email to