#1229: provide downloadable tarball of ET --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: rhaas | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit website | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
Comment (by knarf):
We could cut the size down by not including repository metadata. This would reduce the size of the final extraced data from about 724MB to about one half. Of course, this would have also the disadvantage that users would not be able to 'update' easily. However, with the current setup users might run into the trouble that their clients might not be compatible with the repository client data format. I usually don't expect RCS metadata when I download a tarball.
Using another compression also helps. Your uncompressed tarball is 589MB (the rest to the mentioned 724MB seems to be filesystem overhead - understandable with that many small files). The gzipped tarball is 271MB. xz would get this down to 187MB. Combining this with excluding RCS data the compressed tarball should bring us to less than 100MB.