From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15807 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2012 18:41:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 15797 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jan 2012 18:41:09 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z,TW_NX,TW_XZ,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:40:44 +0000 Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3A61B4010; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:40:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs? Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:41:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.0; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, jim@meyering.net References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <201201262049.33716.vapier@gentoo.org> <83mx99zf1z.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83mx99zf1z.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3728843.rBLqJhEJXo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201271341.41758.vapier@gentoo.org> 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: 2012-01/txt/msg00098.txt.bz2 --nextPart3728843.rBLqJhEJXo Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1054 On Friday 27 January 2012 04:10:32 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > From: Mike Frysinger > > On Thursday 26 January 2012 16:30:39 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > Previous proposal by me: > > > > xz for the new release tip > > > > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-09/msg00341.html > > >=20 > > > 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. > >=20 > > why does tar have to know about xz ? stdin hasn't suddenly stopped > > working. > >=20 > > xzcat foo.tar.xz | tar xf - >=20 > Because (a) this is less convenient to type you gotta be pulling my leg with this > and (b) you assume that ports of tar to non-Posix platforms know how to r= ead > binary streams from stdin, but that assumption is false in quite a few > existing and widely used ports of tar. still a non-issue: unxz foo.tar.xz tar xf foo.tar forcing people to live in the past because you can't be bothered to type a = few=20 extra characters on your legacy systems is ridiculous -mike --nextPart3728843.rBLqJhEJXo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-length: 836 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPIu/lAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WB938QAL+IogO54bTkdhwHftKKop8y HiDZl1NXsqkttdM+txSkcQFfLnadpCgnhJgoK9KMdA5ERqt6eqn++4CODqAtG6Z0 7J16G1Tw+Llh7+LmTFceURpgamXAe93z7OEneNx/mO2Qgjeakv3cuJA53IwRGMND kaj99aaT05kY6Q3f9DMDdFlQnu+VMtHRAkaet5N/Qkd+G5YxAPIKYkkuoOqreN1T BaxCC3EdxOvMSV3bPt0iejwboqGV6zHH/jYzSvfFFMl47+qugNyr62MVsWNiEtGz VP+vlD8Ds18DNqF5WIxTm3M6eZUTDXrF2arNg0fQIKE74d1vVV+lHYxgE3yuE3k9 f+powpvKTjg3tp7UmzunD/FOhFn2lFtrbe9G0UQZzdVCmNjPT4RcuWtjwoJ0rpyh NpFp3+9Ti5Rbdu+PLkrnCi59TLT1yvSAHoPwka/vSxxvJdsFGQWkUiCAMGF8kP8f opVJomr61iU2QK33gX/DHrxBRMKlSl/EpF5MYuHxivpbc4FX9Jsg/wTSL1FC4EBy NUz7EgdDoPjhTLubBqBaYuFNzx8ogUw+71CAAF0gfDR4tO2jyiPa1CzWTiUeZTkJ umGv18otum2JYsDl+cJ0VLEAvfjRgndMeILbxK/KAZ9WAKRgbSNEYV0HPTA35qS5 Y1CRWGEGucoEBtOQ0mTC =vF3o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3728843.rBLqJhEJXo--