On Wednesday 26 of September 2012 01:39:31 Calvin Morrison wrote:
- Sync'd mirrors - Slavek, Tim, is there enough time to do this in 1
week or should we push release back further?
While working on v3.5.13-sru I have achieved a significant reduction in size of the source packages for Debian and Ubuntu. First I noticed that in the Debian / Ubuntu source packages was contained metadata SVN - removing them the size decreased almost by 50%. Then I also replaced the gzip by bzip - the size was reduced by approximately 15%. The last step was the most significant that for SRU I changed package format from "native" to "quilt". This became the source file common to all versions of Debian and Ubuntu - the size was reduced by almost 80%. This allows the overall size of the source packages reduced to about 12% of its original size for 3.5.13.
Although the packages were added for new distribution (Precise), by reducing the size of the source packages, the total size of the PPA is lower than the original 3.5.13 - about 5 GiB.
Slavek
Interesting! Are you going to do this in the R14 packaging tree as well?
When you are ready to release please let me know, and I will copy your packages onto the mirror system via a new PPA.
Thanks!
Tim