From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31900 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2009 06:48:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 31861 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Oct 2009 06:48:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mout3.freenet.de (HELO mout3.freenet.de) (195.4.92.93) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:47:57 +0000 Received: from [195.4.92.19] (helo=9.mx.freenet.de) by mout3.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #92) id 1MtFSA-00072y-Mp; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:47:50 +0200 Received: from hsi-kbw-078-043-063-233.hsi4.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de ([78.43.63.233]:62015 helo=[192.168.1.104]) by 9.mx.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (port 465) (Exim 4.69 #94) id 1MtFSA-0005mW-Jy; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:47:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4AC45095.8070208@rtems.org> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:48:00 -0000 From: Ralf Corsepius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Kratochvil CC: Mark Kettenis , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: xz for the new release tip References: <20090930202857.GA32600@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <200910010619.n916JCCc020880@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <4AC44BC0.3070701@rtems.org> <20091001063837.GA32524@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> In-Reply-To: <20091001063837.GA32524@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00006.txt.bz2 On 10/01/2009 08:38 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > 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, Well, remember the deltarpm on powerpc issue and the "xz occasionly corrupts archives on certain files" issues Fedora's xz has (are?) suffered from. 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. > Hmm, from my perspective lzma is one of the "temporary anecdotes" in compression history, I am referring to ;) > > I see the xz proposal did not find enough acceptance by GDB maintainers, OK, np. > That's a pity. xz compressed gdb-tarballs would have spared rtems.org a lot of diskspace and bandwidth ;) Ralf