Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7

From: Justin P. Mattock
Date: Sun Feb 07 2010 - 00:07:32 EST


On 02/06/10 20:54, Mark Lord wrote:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
Do people really care about the old-fashioned tar.gz and patch.gz
files? I've always uploaded the tar-files and patches compressed with
gzip, because that's the "traditional" way, and then we have a script
that also re-compresses things as 'bz2' because it compresses better
and many people are bandwidth-limited and much prefer the better
compression.
..

I prefer the .gz files, despite limited bandwidth here.
My older, slower CPUs cope with them better.

But .bz2-only would be fine as well.

I just wish the GNU tar folk had the sense to combine -z and -j
into a single flag.

-ml
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what about the new lz thing?
(heck haven't even figured that out yet).

Justin P. Mattock
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