From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40912100931n3c2c28bal690b729dfc69691b@mail.gmail.com> References: <32d987d50912100925g6594678ay59ed76e5684ad8f0@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40912100931n3c2c28bal690b729dfc69691b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:54:28 -0200 Message-ID: <32d987d50912100954ye4273edw84feabc191c23bc@mail.gmail.com> From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] a faster contrib(1) Topicbox-Message-UUID: ae3ce830-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 it's a iso.bz2 because I can create it with mk9660 by using the same proto, the other option was writing a small program that used proto(2) to list the files and then create the tar. mk9660 was already there so... it didn't look like a pain, because you can mount an iso almost everywhere now a days, even on windows you can use winrar or 7zip to unpack them On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wr= ote: > Why .iso.bz2? > Wasn't .tgz enough? > > Just wondering. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Federico G. Benavento > wrote: >> hola, >> >> we've been thinking about making contrib faster for some time >> now and we finally got something significantly speed improvemnets. >> >> It still uses replica but instead of pulling from sources, it grabs a >> .iso.bz2 for the package, mounts it and pulls from there (locally), the >> old behaviour is still supported, in fact if the iso.bz2 isn't found >> it falls back to the old behavior. >> >> pushes are still slow as it maintains the old behavior of updating >> /n/sources/contrib/$usr/root/ so you don't loose the ability of >> diffing code against sources. >> >> I'll upload it in a bit, but I'd like to hear if you have any comments f= irst >> >> old: >> 0.61u 7.03s 4600.28r =C2=A0 =C2=A0 contrib/install fgb/openssl >> >> new: >> 2.91u 6.06s 55.37r =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 contrib/install fgb/openssl >> >> >> -- >> Federico G. Benavento >> >> > > --=20 Federico G. Benavento