Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751866Ab0BQKhx (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:37:53 -0500 Received: from mail-gw2.cc.tut.fi ([130.230.160.16]:50293 "EHLO mail-gw2.cc.tut.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750983Ab0BQKhv (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:37:51 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 902 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:37:51 EST X-AuditID: 82e6a010-b7b29ae000000a5e-2f-4b7bc378269a Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:22:47 +0200 From: Petri Kaukasoina To: Willy Tarreau Cc: James Cloos , Jean Delvare , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, Phillip Lougher , linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org, users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion Message-ID: <20100217102247.GA15017@elektroni.phys.tut.fi> Mail-Followup-To: Willy Tarreau , James Cloos , Jean Delvare , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, Phillip Lougher , linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org, users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Pavel Machek References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100211205129.GA26105@elf.ucw.cz> <20100213181008.479509f5@hyperion.delvare> <4B773B31.1020802@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20100214102308.1d1d6fff@hyperion.delvare> <20100214094940.GB17999@1wt.eu> <20100217054047.GF18216@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100217054047.GF18216@1wt.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAhLTwQcS08pf Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1674 Lines: 35 On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:40:47AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:31:59PM -0500, James Cloos wrote: > > >>>>> "W" == Willy Tarreau writes: > > > > W> Well, I personally like to be able to simply run "less patch-2.6.27.45.gz" > > W> and have it transparently uncompressed and dumped on my terminal. It > > W> doesn't do that on bz2. We could find multiple examples. > > > > It does here, and lzma & xz, too. And has since just days after Lasse > > annouced that the new name would be xz. > > > > Your LESSOPEN controls that, and can be easily coded to support any archive. > > Just checked and I found it funny to see that patch-2.6.1.bz2 is not > correctly opened while 2.6.27.45.bz2 is. Maybe some things have slightly > changed in the tools by that time and the output differs slightly. However > bzcat opens them both so the file is not corrupted. > > This raises the point of the maturity of the tools BTW. GZ is mature, > BZ2 has become mature over the years, XZ is very recent and may still > be buggy at times. We'll only know that when people will complain that > they cannot open one file from time to time. > > Willy > > -- > 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/ -- 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/