[Pmwiki-users] Re: tgz vs tbz2 ? md5sum ?

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Lloyd Budd wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
> 
> Why not use bzip2 for the tarball @ 
> <http://www.pmichaud.com/pub/pmwiki/> instead of gzip.  You will 
> consistently get smaller resulting files.
> 
> $ ls -l
> total 416
> -rw-r--r--  1 lloyd  admin   92507 22 Feb 15:53 pmwiki-0.6.0.tbz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 lloyd  lloyd  115008 18 Feb 13:09 pmwiki-0.6.0.tgz

Hi Lloyd

FYI, you probably shouldn't install pmwiki-0.6.0 since there's a major 
change in the layout system, i.e. it might be easier to wait for 0.6.1.
(Just in case you didn't know).

I actually don't have an opinion on tar.bz2 v.s. tar.gz, but I'm on a 
10Mbit connection... we probably should used bz2 though. It's just as easy 
to use with the GNU version of tar, just do:

	tar xjvf pmwiki-0.6.0.tgz2

to extract the files from the compressed archive.

> You already provide .zip for the faint of heart.

:-)  

> It is likely a good idea to provide md5sum files to check the file 
> integrity?

Definitely. (To Pm's defense, he hasn't reached 1.0 yet :-)

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr