[Buildroot] [PATCH] Improved git download method performance.

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:40:08 -0600,
"Michael S. Zick" <minimod at morethan.org> a écrit :

> > Also the $($(PKG)_SOURCE) default is changed to .tar instead
> > of .tar.gz. This removes unneeded compression and decompression.
> 
> But some parts of the world charge per/byte still.

The move to .tar only changes the fact that tarball are saved
uncompressed in the $(DL_DIR). It does not change anything to the
amount of data transferred over the network, if I understand correctly.
But it's true that the size difference of a Linux kernel tarball
uncompressed and compressed is quite significant.

Regards,

Thomas
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