Lei Zhang wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Bjoern Krombholz fox.box+wine@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Paul Bryan Roberts pbronline-wine@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I'm puzzled by the sizes of the packages. Packages for Debian by Maurilio and James are 13-14 Mb to download whereas Ubuntu packages by Scott are only 7-8 Mb. Anyone see any reason for this ?
- Ubuntu debs are split into a base and a -dev pkg containing the includes.
- Ubuntu debs are lzma compressed, while those for Debian are gzip'ed.
/Björn
Curious, what versions of Debian / Ubuntu supports lzma compressed .deb packages?
8.10 Supports it natively, 8.04 does as well however policy says that 8.04 packages must pre-depend on the newer dpkg so that upgrades from earlier Ubuntus go well.
Using lzma compression does make a huge difference. From the mirror's perspective, it's about 100 gigabytes of data a month.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie