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Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2012-01-30 21:06:40
Message-ID: 201201301606.41259.vapier () gentoo ! org
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On Monday 30 January 2012 14:54:04 Stan Shebs wrote:
> So while we can certainly debate whether this feature or that helps or
> hinders future progress, I don't think it's in our interests to
> disparage all the legacy support.
i didn't say "legacy isn't supported at all". xz will work on legacy systems
just fine provided you d/l and build the decompressor (which is freely
available). what i did say is that we can't restrict ourselves based on what
random old versions of tar people have on their random systems which happens
to not detect xz transparently.
your `tar` doesn't support -J, or -I, or -a doesn't detect xz ? then run
`unxz` yourself first. there is no actual problem here. the only thing i've
seen from Eli is that he doesn't want to have to run `unxz ... && tar xf ...`.
-mike
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