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On 03/04/2011 11:33 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> Hello all, This email is to solicit concerns or thoughts about removing |
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> the .lzma portage snapshots. |
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> The facts: |
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> - Starting on 2011-03-03, I enabled .xz compression on snapshots that |
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> Gentoo makes available[1]. |
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> - On 2011-01-05, Mike added[2] .xz support to emerge-webrsync. |
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> - xz-utils is now in the system set[3] anyway and .xz instead of .lzma |
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> should eliminate some confusion for new users. |
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> That is about all I can think of. My opinion is that this is mostly a |
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> cosmetic change (as lzma is generated via xz-utils anyway) but makes |
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> sense given the popular[4] compression choices. I'd like to target |
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> 2011-04-01 as the date to turn off lzma generation. After generation is |
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> turned off, the lzma archives will fall off the mirrors in 7 days. Any |
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> concerns? |
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Done as of today, ahead of schedule because I have time now :) |
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-Jeremy |
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> Thanks, |
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> Jeremy |
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> [1]: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/ |
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> [2]: |
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> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=9ff806 |
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> [3]: |
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> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_998b4e7fdf578346bb5cfc66be340f7d.xml |
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> [4]: Without known data to back this up, I'm using the short options of |
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> tar(1) to form some opinion as presented by the community. |
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