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Christopher Faylor wrote: > > I've just added bzip2 support to setup but I'm not quite sure how to > test it. > > I guess I could check my changes in and then ask people to gunzip/bzip2 > some packages on their disks. I've already done that and it seems to > work. > > What I really need to be able to do is test this via ftp. I don't have > a download site with anonymous ftp available to me... Hmm. (thinking > out loud) I guess I could setup my home system for this. > > Ok. I'll do this tomorrow. > > In the meantime are there any volunteers for testing this? FWIW, bzip2 > compression seems to make an amazing difference in the size of some of > the source files and a not so amazing difference n the size of some of > the binaries. > > cgf I may be willing to test, dependent on time constraints. Since you're concerned with size, did you know that a gzip of a bzip2 reduces the size of the file further? (sic;) Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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