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The CPAN Testers DB (Score:2)
.. is at http://devel.cpantesters.org/cpanstats.db.bz2 [cpantesters.org] (gzip version also available).
You're using the old database which contains LOTS of missing data. :)
Any better formats than bz2? (Score:1)
If we're going to do something other than gzip, you'd maybe be better to look at an .ls archive. I see 30% size reductions over .gz for SQLite databases.
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That should be .lz
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Or course, ORLite::Mirror doesn't support LZMA yet, but I'll work on that.
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The difference is that both Linux distros and MacOS X systems ship with bzip2 tools. There is no OS at all that ships with LZMA tools.