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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:17:55
Message-Id: 20120822211201.29856d64@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry? by Michael Mol
1 On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:05:38 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
2
3 > You could download the .tar.xz file, decompress it on a different box,
4 > and then recompress it with lighter settings.
5 >
6 > unxz filename.tar.xz
7 > xz -1 filename.tar
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9 You'd have to rebuild the ebuild's manifest after doing that, or portage
10 will download the original again.
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14 Neil Bothwick
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16 "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving."
17 RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9

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