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Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?

From: Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, jim at meyering dot net, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:34:10 +0100
Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <20120126203148.GA30390@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83vcnyyww0.fsf@gnu.org>

On 01/26/2012 10:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:31:48 +0100
From: Jan Kratochvil<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:21:47 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:

With xz -9e, that would have been 25% smaller,
at 15282412 bytes (contrast w/20614020 for .bz2).

+1

Previous proposal by me:
	xz for the new release tip
	http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-09/msg00341.html


Please think a little about those who don't necessarily have a tar
that knows about xz.  The world doesn't end with GNU/Linux.


These days, even FreeBSD is shipping their OS tar.xz (rsp. txz) packaged:
c.f. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.0-RELEASE/

Ralf

References:
- xz-compressed release tarballs?
  - From: Jim Meyering
- Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
  - From: Jan Kratochvil
- Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
  - From: Eli Zaretskii

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