Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages
- To: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages
- From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:46:28 +0200
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On 2014-09-25 22:23:19 [+0800], Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 09/25/2014 06:02 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> As wrote by others earlier, that's the amount of memory needed for
> compression. 65 MB of RAM is needed for decompression. That's nothing!!!
just imagine you have one of the recent smaller boxes say beagle board
which have 256MiB of total memory. The required 65MiB is a little more
than a forth of it.
If you argue that this kind of hardware never runs "this" kind of
software so -z9 is sane then the question is when someone hits this
problem and cares to report or works around it.
The thing is whether the bytes we saved here with -z9 vs -6(e) is worth
the problem we might run into.
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
Sebastian
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