Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:22:35 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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On 02/11/2010 12:51 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >> Option 1) >> >> Leave gz as the master, and migrate bz2 to xz. This will happen in >> stages obviously. with bz2 ultimately being phased out. >> >> Migration option 1) >> >> All new content would be provided in .bz2 and .xz with >> an ultimate date set that the .bz2 files would stop >> being generated with new content. This would leave all >> existing content alone and it would not be a migration >> of the current .bz2 files to xz > > I believe this is cleanest. gzip has performance advantages, and old > files suddenly disappearing would be just weird. >
It would also be "just weird" to:
a) require that the end user knows the particular compression format used by a particular legacy file. b) having to have the mirror system deal with a mix of .bz2 and .xz files.
-hpa
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