Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752653Ab0BNW1x (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:27:53 -0500 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:56346 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752566Ab0BNW1v (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:27:51 -0500 Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:27:29 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: "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 Message-ID: <20100214142729.78d8bc19@nehalam> In-Reply-To: References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.18.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 22 On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:03:31 -0800 ebiederm@xmission.com (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 -- -- 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/