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Re: xz-compressed tarballs?
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Hans Aberg |
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Re: xz-compressed tarballs? |
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Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:29:27 +0200 |
On 10 Jul 2011, at 19:57, Joel E. Denny wrote:
>> you might prefer to drop bzip2 compression altogether and stick with
>> just the most-common gzip and best-compressed xz
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> Thanks for the suggestion. It sounds like there's no reason to keep
> bzip2.
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>> at least one (GNU cppi [*]) distributes only xz-compressed tarballs.
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> I'm a little skeptical of dropping gzip just yet.
Mac OS X supports gzip & bzip2 in its 'tar', but not xz - must be installed
separately. Might be BSD thing.
Hans