Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 12:31:19 schrieb Allan McRae: > Overall, I'd prefer to spend my time getting pkg deltas working which I > think is the better bandwagon to jump on... Sure deltas are quite usefull, too. OT: The recent approach is to automatically generate them within repo-add, right? So

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Allan McRae
Thomas Bächler wrote: Pierre Schmitz schrieb: I am just doing some very simple test right now. (default compression preset) core (x86_64)(decompress time) none552M gzip186M12s xz121M17s I will add a test for extra later. Even though this might not

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 12:02:22 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Anyone else in favor of moving to lzma? Related: lzma-compressed kernel > (support with 2.6.30 and newer), maybe lzma-compressed squashfs on the > live CDs (2.6.30 has lzma support, no idea if squashfs can use it already). I think we cou

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Pierre Schmitz schrieb: I am just doing some very simple test right now. (default compression preset) core (x86_64) (decompress time) none552M gzip186M12s xz 121M17s I will add a test for extra later. Even though this might not be

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 08:37:58 schrieb Grigorios Bouzakis: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:03:43AM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 02:06:31 schrieb Dan McGee: > > > Yes, of course. I think we can take some time to let it bake, as there > > > is not an immediate need, and

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0)

2009-05-11 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:03:43AM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 02:06:31 schrieb Dan McGee: > > Yes, of course. I think we can take some time to let it bake, as there > > is not an immediate need, and when 5.0 comes out we can move it to > > core and then rebuild libarch