From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201301606.41259.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F26F55C.8050408@earthlink.net>
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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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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-26 20:22 Jim Meyering
2012-01-26 20:32 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-26 21:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-26 22:15 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-26 23:10 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-01-27 1:49 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27 5:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-27 9:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30 19:08 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-27 1:48 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27 18:41 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-28 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-28 23:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-29 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30 6:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-30 17:49 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-30 19:54 ` Stan Shebs
2012-01-30 20:53 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-30 21:06 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-01-27 2:37 ` Ralf Corsepius
2012-01-27 9:26 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-27 20:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 20:30 ` Marek Polacek
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