On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:40:07AM +0200, Juergen Daubert wrote:
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:43:13AM +0400, Johnny wrote:
Hi.
Hello Sergei,
I'd like to ask if there are any plans to include support of tar.xz packages in upcoming releases of pkgutils? Just like Archlinux did http://www.archlinux.org/news/490/. Thanks.
This was already discussed a bit, see [1]. Having packages compressed with xz make sense if you distribute binary packages like arch does, but not for sources-based distro like CRUX. IMO it's not acceptable if every user has to wait a factor of 16 longer until pkgmk has compressed the package. But what about the choice? You just could add some variable like PKGMK_EXT=gz or xz to let the user deceide himself. That could be a wise decision.
* of course the compression time ratio between xz and gzip depends on many factors and is not a constant, 16 was just the number I got for the example in [1]. But you could simply adjust the comression ratio for xz to recieve a good balance between time/space. Also i heard that decompression time for xz is almost the same as for gz, plus users will get a smaller distro size to download. http://linuxgazette.net/162/lindholm.html