it's a iso.bz2 because I can create it with mk9660 by using the same proto, the other option was writing a small program that used proto(2) to list the files and then create the tar. mk9660 was already there so...
it didn't look like a pain, because you can mount an iso almost everywhere now a days, even on windows you can use winrar or 7zip to unpack them On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros <n...@lsub.org> wrote: > Why .iso.bz2? > Wasn't .tgz enough? > > Just wondering. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Federico G. Benavento > <benave...@gmail.com> wrote: >> hola, >> >> we've been thinking about making contrib faster for some time >> now and we finally got something significantly speed improvemnets. >> >> It still uses replica but instead of pulling from sources, it grabs a >> .iso.bz2 for the package, mounts it and pulls from there (locally), the >> old behaviour is still supported, in fact if the iso.bz2 isn't found >> it falls back to the old behavior. >> >> pushes are still slow as it maintains the old behavior of updating >> /n/sources/contrib/$usr/root/ so you don't loose the ability of >> diffing code against sources. >> >> I'll upload it in a bit, but I'd like to hear if you have any comments first >> >> old: >> 0.61u 7.03s 4600.28r contrib/install fgb/openssl >> >> new: >> 2.91u 6.06s 55.37r contrib/install fgb/openssl >> >> >> -- >> Federico G. Benavento >> >> > > -- Federico G. Benavento
