I wrote a script to be able to repack (and fix) official ati installer packages. Then I tested different compressions. Here the results:
51213090 ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run
48289029 ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run.bzip2
23317971 ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run.lzma
For bzip2 and lzma max -9 compression was used like it gzip -9 is used in original package. In percentage:
100% ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run
94% ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run.bzip2
46% ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run.lzma
Of course that needs lzma installed on the system or you have to put in a static build of lzma, but download size would be much smaller. lzma is the compression which used by 7zip.
51213090 ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run
48289029 ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run.bzip2
23317971 ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run.lzma
For bzip2 and lzma max -9 compression was used like it gzip -9 is used in original package. In percentage:
100% ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run
94% ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run.bzip2
46% ati-driver-installer-8.41.7-x86.x86_64.run.lzma
Of course that needs lzma installed on the system or you have to put in a static build of lzma, but download size would be much smaller. lzma is the compression which used by 7zip.
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