Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757031Ab0BMISb (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:18:31 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45296 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751908Ab0BMISa (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:18:30 -0500 Message-ID: <4B765F5D.9070106@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:14:21 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Luck CC: Jean Delvare , "J.H." , "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , users@kernel.org, lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100212150137.648dca7c@hyperion.delvare> <4B75A5FE.8020408@zytor.com> <12c511ca1002122342x6a85459aic31f5c7e8f3786c1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <12c511ca1002122342x6a85459aic31f5c7e8f3786c1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 669 Lines: 21 On 02/12/2010 11:42 PM, Tony Luck wrote: > > 3) Keep all the .gz and .bz2 in the old 2.x hierarchy > 4) Only have .xz in the new 3.x directories. > I really dislike this for reasons already stated. Keep in mind that the compression management is global to the entire archive, not just to the kernel, too. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/