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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:32:34 -0400 |
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> Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:17:08 -0400 |
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>>> Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> It's troubling to me that projects are using lzma when it's on disk |
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>>>> format isn't even final and the project has security issues. |
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>>>> |
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>>> You mean projects like 'GNU tar'? |
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>>> |
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>> As far as I know Ciaran, all GNU projects have switched or are in the |
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>> process of switching to lzma over bzip2. I believe the issue in |
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>> question which prompted this original e-mail was due to coreutils. |
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>> But I could be wrong. |
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>> |
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> You miss my point. GNU tar sometimes changes its on disk format (and |
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> will be doing so again at some point for xattrs), and it's had security |
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> issues. |
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Fair enough. However, newer GNU tar's are able to untar the older |
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formats. If you read the lzma changelogs, it appears to imply that newer |
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ones won't be able to read older formats. The changelog specifically |
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states if a user they are handling the issue "gracefully" by telling the |
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user to upgrade or downgrade their lzma. |
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