Porteus v5.01 slapt-mod question
Posted: 11 Nov 2023, 10:09
Overall I am happy with Porteus' v5.01 slapt-mod.
But I don't get one thing: most package info files are compressed
and some are not:
Why are the .*ChangeLog.txt package_data and .*.md5 files not also gz compressed?
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Detailed example:
the compressed file .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#extra-15.0#PACKAGES.TXT.gz
is uncompressed 5.16 MB (and compressed it is 1.09 MB)
while the uncompressed file package_data is 8.29 MB
(compressed with standard gzip compression that would be a mere 1.73 MB )
But I don't get one thing: most package info files are compressed
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guest@rava:/var/slapt-get$ ls -o --time-style=long-iso .*gz| cut -c 19-$(expr 18 + $(tput cols))
16356 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#15.0#CHECKSUMS.md5.gz
72497 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#15.0#PACKAGES.TXT.gz
219945 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#extra-15.0#CHECKSUMS.md5.gz
1141528 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#extra-15.0#PACKAGES.TXT.gz
266451 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#slackware-15.0#PACKAGES.TXT.gz
7891 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#slackware-15.0#extra#PACKAGES.TXT.gz
21603 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#slackware-15.0#patches#PACKAGES.TXT.gz
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guest@rava:/var/slapt-get$ ls -o --time-style=long-iso .*txt package_data .*.md5 | cut -c 19-$(expr 18 + $(tput cols))
40151 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#15.0#ChangeLog.txt
744936 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#extra-15.0#ChangeLog.txt
1195426 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#slackware-15.0#CHECKSUMS.md5
2059489 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#slackware-15.0#ChangeLog.txt
49689 2023-11-11 11:01 .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#slackware-15.0#extra#CHECKSUMS.md5
8692761 2023-11-11 11:01 package_data
Added in 11 minutes 26 seconds:
Detailed example:
the compressed file .http:##slackware.uk#salix#x86_64#extra-15.0#PACKAGES.TXT.gz
is uncompressed 5.16 MB (and compressed it is 1.09 MB)
while the uncompressed file package_data is 8.29 MB
(compressed with standard gzip compression that would be a mere 1.73 MB )