linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.38-rc2 tarballs? XZ-compressed source tarballs?

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Date:	Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:39:55 +0100
From:	Piotr Hosowicz <piotr@...owicz.com>
To:	sedat.dilek@...il.com
CC:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...glemail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.38-rc2 tarballs? XZ-compressed source tarballs?

On 22.01.2011 12:30, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> 2011/1/22 Piotr Hosowicz<piotr@...owicz.com>:
>> On 22.01.2011 12:00, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering why there are no 2.6.38-rc2 tarballs available in testing/
>>> [1].
>>
>> Me too.
>
> I had to be more precise... there is only TAR.GZ tarball [1].

Yes, I expected tar.bz2 linked to the main page.

> $ cd ~/src/linux-2.6
>
> $ tar -xf files/linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
>
> $ tar --use-compress-program=xz -cf files/linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
> linux-2.6.38-rc2/
>
> $ ls -l linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sd sd 94091552 22. Jan 04:57 linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sd sd 64857696 22. Jan 12:25 linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
>
> $ du -h linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> 90M     linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
> 62M     linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
>
> $ du -k linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> 91892   linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz
> 63344   linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz
>
> $ file linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.*
> linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last
> modified: Sat Jan 22 04:33:14 2011, max compression
> linux-2.6.38-rc2.tar.xz: XZ compressed data
>
> Default compression-level of XZ is 6 (9 is best), so a 28M smaller
> tarball as a number speaks for itself.

Wow!

Regards,

Piotr Hosowicz

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