From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: git download size Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:17:58 +0100 Message-ID: <878u24yic9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lh68fs4p.fsf@elephly.net> <20160225230533.3f4a69db@debian-netbook> <87d1rjys0v.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh66e6bs.fsf@elephly.net> <20160227194019.GA26683@thebird.nl> <87y4a5cgin.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35135) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa36j-0003kh-16 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:18:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa36f-0000PO-RV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:18:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y4a5cgin.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:48:16 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Pjotr Prins 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-gi= t-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 . Ludo=E2=80=99.