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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-August/msg00563.html


I propose that we add a section to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL that recommends packagers to pick the best source.  
I propose that we add a section to [[Packaging/SourceURL]] that recommends packagers to pick the best source.  


This will be a tip in the SourceURL page:
This will be a tip in the SourceURL page:


{{admon/tip|Smallest Compressed Archive|If the upstream source archive is available in multiple formats it's best to use the one that yields the smallest source rpm to save space on the mirrors and downloads of source RPM packages.  xz/lzma compression (tar.xz or tar.lzma) is currently the best followed by bz2 (tar.bz2), gzipped tarballs (tar.gz) and finally zip archives.}}
{{admon/tip|Smallest Compressed Archive|If the upstream source archive is available in multiple compressed formats that our tools can decompress it's best to use the one that is smallest in size. This ensures the smallest source rpm to save space on the mirrors and downloads of source RPM packages.}}


Alternate proposal:
[[Category:Archived packaging guideline drafts]]
{{admon/tip|Smallest Compressed Archive|If the upstream source archive is available in multiple compression formats it's best to use the one that is smallest in size to save space on the mirrors and downloads of source RPM packages.}}

Latest revision as of 07:49, 18 September 2016

Owner

Rahul Sundaram (mether)

Rationale

To avoid post import cleanup like the following

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-August/msg00563.html

I propose that we add a section to Packaging/SourceURL that recommends packagers to pick the best source.

This will be a tip in the SourceURL page:

Smallest Compressed Archive
If the upstream source archive is available in multiple compressed formats that our tools can decompress it's best to use the one that is smallest in size. This ensures the smallest source rpm to save space on the mirrors and downloads of source RPM packages.