28 Sep
2012
28 Sep
'12
8:04 a.m.
On Wednesday 26 of September 2012 01:39:31 Calvin Morrison wrote:
2. 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
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