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Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>>OK, there seems to be enough resistance to this to put it off for a year
>>or two.  Since that means I don't have to do any work, that plan has
>>inherent appeal to me.
>>
>>In other words, the current setup will remain for now.  HOWEVER, I would
>>like to recommend that mirror sites start carrying .bz2 files if they
>>want to carry only one format.
> 
> 
> Can we at least switch the default upload format to bz2? I would think
> that's a reasonably simple change to the robot? For those of us
> uploading stuff over a slow modem link, the extra efficiency would be
> much appreciated.
> 

No, I don't want to muck with working scripts.  I suggest setting up a 
script to upload to the /staging area and convert automatically.  I have 
put a script called bz2togz in /usr/local/bin to help out.

	-hpa


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