Em Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 01:40:42AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt escreveu: > > On Monday 2019-12-16 22:02, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > >> >> > > https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves/dwarves-1.16.tar.sign > >> >> > No top-level directory. Just why? > >> >> I can do that, i.e. one directory per release? Will do? > >> >Done, please let me know of any other suggestion, > > > >> What I mean is a top-level directory inside the tarball, like most (unix-ish) > >> software does, so that `tar -xf` does not fill up the current directory. > > > >Ah, ok, so trying using what the kernel uses for perf tarballs: > > > >export srctree=/home/acme/git/pahole > >export dwarves_tar=dwarves-$(echo $(pahole --version) | cut -c2-) > >git --git-dir=${srctree}/.git archive --prefix=${dwarves_tar}/ HEAD^{tree} $(cd ${srctree}; echo $(cat MANIFEST)) -o ${dwarves_tar}.tar > > > >Please take a look at: > > > >http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/pahole/dwarves-1.16.tar.xz > > Yes that looks fine, thank you. > > >I think we should have both, i.e. a separate directory because we have > >at least the compressed tarball + the signature file and the top level > >directory, that should've be as you suggest since the dawn of time, my > >bad. > >From my experience, transferring one directory listing (i.e. index only) with > 1000 entries is almost always faster than one directory listing of 340 entries > and another 340 listings of 3 files each, for both spinning rust and > electric storage. > Large directories only get unwieldly after 1000ish entries IMO, > because then the amount of information becomes more than what one is looking > for. (I base this upon the slight discontent I have whenever I access > my distro's RPM directory index, which is currently 1 dir for ~20000 files > and takes 2.5s to hot-load, more if cold, over http. Wish they used an a-z > split.) > So if you need a recommendation and are willing to take mine, no > separate subdirs on download servers. Ok, will follow your recomendation, later today I'll get that http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/pahole/dwarves-1.16.tar.xz and sign it move to the canonical place and remove the per-version subdirectories, thanks for your advice, - Arnaldo
