Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

From: David Rees
Date: Tue Feb 16 2010 - 20:36:44 EST


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:29 AM, J.H. <warthog9@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/15/2010 07:15 AM, tytso@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> People who think xz are good should be working to get it installed by
>> default into the community and then enterprise distro's, first....
>
> As a note xz is available via EPEL for Redhat Enterprice Linux 5 and
> anything that's derived from that.  Doesn't seem to be available,
> directly, for 4 or lower.  Not sure on Suse, and Debian's already been
> mentioned.  Just trying to do a quick survey of what's out there already.

Something I noticed, too. Hopefully going to work on getting set up
as a packager and get xz pushed out to EPEL EL-4 over the next couple
weeks unless someone else beats me to it as I still have a handful of
EL-4 machines grinding away. :-)

-Dave
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