Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

[Jean Delvare]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:27:29 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:03:31 -0800
> ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> 
> > Right now xz suffers from limited availability.  I just checked the
> > systems I have handy and of the 4 distro's I have installed on various
> > machines only 1 provides xz, so I expect it will be a while before
> > xz achieves ubiquity.  At the same time the fact that xz reduces
> > the linux-2.6.32 tarball by 10Megs is a welcome benefit, and seems
> > to make the replacement of bzip2 with xz worth doing.
> 
> xv is not standard on Ubuntu.
> Installing xv-utils on Ubuntu 9.10 produces big scary warning
> about package conflict with lzma.
> 
> This seems like a premature optimization at this point

That would be a packaging bug, xz should transparently supersede lzma.

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Jean Delvare
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