Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932525Ab0BPPan (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:30:43 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:33866 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756468Ab0BPPal (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:30:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4B7AB9C0.6070402@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:29:04 -0800 From: "J.H." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tytso@mit.edu, Jean Delvare , Pavel Machek , mirrors@kernel.org, lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds , Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100212150137.648dca7c@hyperion.delvare> <4B75A5DC.3060803@kernel.org> <20100212202357.6363d5af@hyperion.delvare> <20100212230702.GA10266@1wt.eu> <20100213091748.276821e1@hyperion.delvare> <20100214170724.GE1578@ucw.cz> <20100214200803.4b2348ce@hyperion.delvare> <20100215151522.GI5337@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20100215151522.GI5337@thunk.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:29:06 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1783 Lines: 41 On 02/15/2010 07:15 AM, tytso@mit.edu wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 08:08:03PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:07:24 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>>> As a matter of fact, I am advocating the use of xz while I don't have >>>> it installed on most of my machines. I really don't see this as a >>>> blocker. >>> >>> Eh? >>> >>> Making many people around the world install uncommon tool is not >>> something that should be done lightly. >> >> It's pretty obvious that xz will become popular quickly, at least on >> Linux and BSD systems, much like bz2 is today. I'm not asking people to >> start using ClearCase ;) xz will supersede bz2, it's only a matter of >> time. I see no problem in being one of the early adopters. > > If by "quickly" you mean 'ten years', sure, maybe. Keep in mind that > there are people where who are still using RHEL 3, and some of them > might want to download from ftp.kernel.org. So those people who are > suggesting that we replace .gz files with .xz on kernel.org are > *really* smoking something good. > > People who think xz are good should be working to get it installed by > default into the community and then enterprise distro's, first.... > > - Ted 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. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley -- 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/