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On Friday, March 04, 2011 12:33:08 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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i dont think we're generating .xz yet ... otherwise, let's do it |
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-mike |
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