compress INDEX with xz, instead of bz2?

[Chris Rees]

On Jul 7, 2012 8:19 PM, "Anton Shterenlikht" <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> A very minor point
>
> # make fetchindex
> /usr/ports/INDEX-10.bz2                       100% of 1621 kB  208 kBps
> # ls -al INDEX-10
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26284787 Jul  7 20:08 INDEX-10
> # xz INDEX-10
> # ls -al INDEX-10.xz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1350156 Jul  7 20:08 INDEX-10.xz
> #
>
> So xz saves ~19% compared to bz2 for this file.
>
> Now that xz is in the base,
> perhaps making INDEX available compressed
> with xz would help some people who are still
> on slow download lines.

We still have to support 7.x, which does not have xz.

Chris