From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5133 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2012 02:37:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 5124 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jan 2012 02:37:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mout4.freenet.de (HELO mout4.freenet.de) (195.4.92.94) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:37:10 +0000 Received: from [195.4.92.142] (helo=mjail2.freenet.de) by mout4.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1RqbgX-0004PK-8a; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:37:05 +0100 Received: from localhost ([::1]:33643 helo=mjail2.freenet.de) by mjail2.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1RqbgX-0007qT-4m; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:37:05 +0100 Received: from [195.4.92.27] (port=33130 helo=17.mx.freenet.de) by mjail2.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1Rqbdl-00071q-6h; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:34:13 +0100 Received: from hsi-kbw-149-172-203-247.hsi13.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de ([149.172.203.247]:52550 helo=[192.168.1.104]) by 17.mx.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (port 587) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1Rqbdk-0000ib-SA; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:34:13 +0100 Message-ID: <4F220D22.6010501@rtems.org> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:37:00 -0000 From: Ralf Corsepius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: Jan Kratochvil , jim@meyering.net, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs? References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <20120126203148.GA30390@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83vcnyyww0.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83vcnyyww0.fsf@gnu.org> 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: 2012-01/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 On 01/26/2012 10:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:31:48 +0100 >> From: Jan Kratochvil >> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org >> >> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:21:47 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> With xz -9e, that would have been 25% smaller, >>> at 15282412 bytes (contrast w/20614020 for .bz2). +1 >> Previous proposal by me: >> xz for the new release tip >> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-09/msg00341.html > > 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. These days, even FreeBSD is shipping their OS tar.xz (rsp. txz) packaged: c.f. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.0-RELEASE/ Ralf