From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: git download size
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:17:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u24yic9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4a5cgin.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:48:16 +0100")
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
>
>> Can we make the git binary download smaller? I think it is one of the
>> largest ones now in Guix. Since git is a small tool it really
>> shouldn't be that large despite that Linus was involved and some
>> people say it may be a larger contribution for posterity than the
>> kernel ;)
>
> I just build git and this is what I see:
>
> rekado in guix: du -sh /gnu/store/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3
> 23M /gnu/store/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3
>
> However:
>
> Found valid signature for /gnu/store/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3
> From http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3
> Downloading jijqv5...-git-2.6.3 (247.2MiB installed)...
> http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3 792KiB/s 02:19 | 107.9MiB transferred
>
> Why the difference?
See <http://bugs.gnu.org/21949>.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-28 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-25 20:32 Installing headers to a separate output? Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-25 20:40 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-25 21:05 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-26 23:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-27 11:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-27 19:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-28 9:48 ` git download size Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-28 15:17 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-02-28 15:46 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-28 15:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
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