[Adium-devl] Let's abandon disk images

Chris Forsythe chris at adiumx.com
Fri Mar 30 04:12:17 UTC 2007


On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:58 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Mar 29, 2007, at 20:40:27, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>
>> 4) With bz compressed disk images, what's the real difference  
>> here? You're saying it's bigger, but is it really that much bigger?
>
> hdiutil create -format UDBZ -srcdir "Adium $VERSION" -volname  
> "Adium $VERSION" "Adium-$VERSION.dmg"
> ...............................................
> created: /Volumes/RAM Disk/Adium-1.0.2.dmg
> ___
> du -b Adium-1.0.2.dmg                                     %/Volumes/ 
> RAM Disk(0)
> 14598891        Adium-1.0.2.dmg
> ___
> tar cjf "Adium-$VERSION.tbz" "Adium $VERSION"             %/Volumes/ 
> RAM Disk(0)
> ___
> du -b Adium-1.0.2.tbz                                     %/Volumes/ 
> RAM Disk(0)
> 12818271        Adium-1.0.2.tbz

Try the optimizeimage switch for hdiutil, does that change very much  
here?

Chris




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