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Am 26.09.2012 22:43, schrieb Matt Turner: |
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> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install |
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>> media be replaced with |
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>> pbzip2. It was closed a short while later, telling me that it'd |
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>> involve changing what's kept in @system, and that had to be discussed |
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>> here, rather than in a bug report. |
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> If we're going to ship a parallel bzip2 implementation, it should be |
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> lbzip2 and not pbzip2. |
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> lbzip2 can decompress bz2 archives with multiple threads that haven't |
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> been compressed with lbzip2/pbzip2. |
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This seems relevant, especially comment 12ff: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309683 |
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For further anecdotal evidence: I've used pbzip2 with USE="symlink" for |
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several months now and never had trouble with it. Checking out lbzip2 |
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now. I noticed it doesn't install a bunzip2 symlink. |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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