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Request: Please provide bzip2 tarballs for httpd downloads

           Summary: Request: Please provide bzip2 tarballs for httpd
                    downloads
           Product: Apache httpd-1.3
           Version: 1.3.25
          Platform: All
               URL: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: pgl@instinct.org


Bzip2 is a widely used compression utility that provides greater squashability than gzip, which 
is currently being used for the Unix versions of HTTPd releases. I would like to suggest providing 
the releases as .tar.bz2 archives in addition to the existing formats, as it would benefit users 
(specifically, me) whilst reducing the bandwidth usage on apache.org and its mirrors.

As an 
example of the potential benefit, the current release of Apache 1.3.26 has the following sizes 
for gzip and bzip2 archives:

[niki:root]:/usr/local/src/apache/tarballs # ls -l a*
-rw-r--r--  
1 root  wheel  1833303 Jun 22 06:47 apache_1.3.26.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2303147 Jun 18 18:24 
apache_1.3.26.tar.gz

As you can see, the .bz2 version is significantly smaller than the .gz 
file.

regards,

Peter Lowe

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