From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28324 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2009 06:38:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 28315 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Oct 2009 06:38:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:38:44 +0000 Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n916cgIU025039 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:38:42 -0400 Received: from host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n916cdtZ019667 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:38:42 -0400 Received: from host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n916cdvA000661; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:38:39 +0200 Received: (from jkratoch@localhost) by host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n916ccfG000658; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:38:38 +0200 Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:38:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Ralf Corsepius Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: xz for the new release tip Message-ID: <20091001063837.GA32524@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> References: <20090930202857.GA32600@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <200910010619.n916JCCc020880@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <4AC44BC0.3070701@rtems.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AC44BC0.3070701@rtems.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:27:12 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > it's the internal compression being used in rpm on > modern Linux distros (Fedora, openSUSE), etc. I did not think about it to be so fresh, I already got used to it as is it being pushed for the rpm packaging in Fedora. > Whether it's stable enough and has a longer term perspective is a > different question The file format of current xz-4.999.9beta is already guaranteed to be the one used in final expectde xz-5.0, specified at: http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html > or will prove to be a yet another temporary anecdote in compression tools is > hard to tell - doubts are justified, IMHO. `lzma' is decompressed by `xz' the same way `compress' is decompressed by `gzip'. `lzma' was AFAIK already used as the internal format of SuSE rpm so it already became a format requiring backward compatibility. I see the xz proposal did not find enough acceptance by GDB maintainers, OK, np. Regards, Jan