Lei Zhang wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Bjoern Krombholz > <fox.box+w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Paul Bryan Roberts >> <pbronline-w...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >>> I'm puzzled by the sizes of the packages. Packages for Debian by Maurilio >>> and James are 13-14 Mb to download whereas Ubuntu packages by Scott are >>> only 7-8 Mb. Anyone see any reason for this ? >> 1. Ubuntu debs are split into a base and a -dev pkg containing the includes. >> 2. Ubuntu debs are lzma compressed, while those for Debian are gzip'ed. >> >> >> /Björn >> >> >> > > Curious, what versions of Debian / Ubuntu supports lzma compressed > .deb packages? > >
8.10 Supports it natively, 8.04 does as well however policy says that 8.04 packages must pre-depend on the newer dpkg so that upgrades from earlier Ubuntus go well. Using lzma compression does make a huge difference. From the mirror's perspective, it's about 100 gigabytes of data a month. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
