Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:15:59 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:27:29 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:03:31 -0800 > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > > Right now xz suffers from limited availability. I just checked the > > systems I have handy and of the 4 distro's I have installed on various > > machines only 1 provides xz, so I expect it will be a while before > > xz achieves ubiquity. At the same time the fact that xz reduces > > the linux-2.6.32 tarball by 10Megs is a welcome benefit, and seems > > to make the replacement of bzip2 with xz worth doing. > > xv is not standard on Ubuntu. > Installing xv-utils on Ubuntu 9.10 produces big scary warning > about package conflict with lzma. > > This seems like a premature optimization at this point
That would be a packaging bug, xz should transparently supersede lzma.
-- Jean Delvare
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