[tor-bugs] #32881 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Make script to optimize upload and download of Tor Browser releases

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#32881: Make script to optimize upload and download of Tor Browser releases
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 Reporter:  boklm                                |          Owner:  boklm
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 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ReleaseTrainMigration,               |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam202006                           |
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Comment (by sysrqb):

 I manually experimented with this a little bit during recent releases.
 While the localized packages are very similar to the `en-US` package, they
 are very different in reality due to compression. In some cases, we can
 sync the compressed `en-US` package, uncompress it, clone/copy it for each
 locale, sync each uncompressed localized package, then compress each
 resulting localized bundle on the destination.

 `tar.xz` bundles are probably good candidates for this. It seems like
 `.dmg`, `.exe`, and `.mar` are using compression internally, so using a
 technique like what is described here doesn't seem easy.

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