Autopackage slow with large install file

Bruno Coudoin <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:42:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.autopackage.devel
Message-ID <1238334162.6181.112.camel@bruno>
GCompris contains many data files, images and sounds. The generated
autopackage file takes 92MB.

Installing it on my system (Athlon 1.8GHz with 700MB RAM) takes about 15
minutes which is excessive.

I suppose there is a compression system in place with a policy to
compress a lot. For GCompris since many data is already compressed we
waste a lot of CPU for a poor compression ratio. I would prefer to offer
a 110MB package that installs in 5 minutes.

Is there a way to control the compression ratio ?

-- 
Bruno Coudoin
http://gcompris.net  Free educational software for kids
http://toulibre.org  Logiciel Libre à Toulouse
http://april.org     Promouvoir et défendre le Logiciel Libre


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