Re: Change to bzip2?

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Feb  2, 2005, Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com> wrote:

> And it also makes little sense to bzip tarballs that end up in gzipped
> payloads imho.

It sure does.  Already-compressed payload doesn't get further
compressed.  A bzip2ed file will still take less space than a gzip2ed
one if you make it part of gzipped payload.

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