Rich Teer wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: > > I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less > > bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step > > backwards. Really. > > I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this ages ago (I > forget exactly when); apparently the use of bzip archives is one > reasons why installing Solaris takes so long.
Correct me if I am wrong... the 3K manual page archive for developers has nothing todo with Solaris install... right ? (And bzip2 on SPARC could be tweaked to run a little bit faster anyway). I vote to use bzip2 to compress all the developer sources... usually the disks are slower than uncompressing the tarball anyway... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org