On Jul 7, 2012 8:19 PM, "Anton Shterenlikht" <me...@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > A very minor point > > # make fetchindex > /usr/ports/INDEX-10.bz2 100% of 1621 kB 208 kBps > # ls -al INDEX-10 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 26284787 Jul 7 20:08 INDEX-10 > # xz INDEX-10 > # ls -al INDEX-10.xz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1350156 Jul 7 20:08 INDEX-10.xz > # > > So xz saves ~19% compared to bz2 for this file. > > Now that xz is in the base, > perhaps making INDEX available compressed > with xz would help some people who are still > on slow download lines.
We still have to support 7.x, which does not have xz. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
