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Re: [tor-bugs] #1705 [Tor bundles/installation]: Create split packages for the linux & OSX browser bundles
#1705: Create split packages for the linux & OSX browser bundles
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Reporter: kaner | Owner: erinn
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_information
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Tor bundles/installation | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by rransom):
Replying to [comment:5 rransom]:
> The Linux TBBs are currently too large for even GMail users to obtain
using GetTor.
They can be reduced to 17.7 MiB by switching from `gzip` to `xz` with its
default compression level, or to 17.4 MiB using `xz -9`. I'm not sure we
want to do that; `xz` would be far more resource-intensive on the build
servers, its file format is specified only by a single implementation, and
I doubt that it is as well-audited as `gzip`/`zlib` are now.
`bzip2` was not effective enough (`bzip2` and `bzip2 -9` only reduced the
bundle to 22.1 MiB).
> Unfortunately, creating split packages for Linux and Mac will be harder
than creating split packages for Windows -- I am not aware of any GUI
software to un-split archives on Linux, so we would probably need to
create our own split/join tools.
We should write split/join tools for Windows, too -- we currently use
WinRAR there, and ship WinRAR binaries. See #3800.
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