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.
* 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]. -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux