Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:54:43 -0500 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > Do people really care about the old-fashioned tar.gz and patch.gz files? > I've always uploaded the tar-files and patches compressed with gzip, > because that's the "traditional" way, and then we have a script that also > re-compresses things as 'bz2' because it compresses better and many people > are bandwidth-limited and much prefer the better compression. ..
I prefer the .gz files, despite limited bandwidth here. My older, slower CPUs cope with them better.
But .bz2-only would be fine as well.
I just wish the GNU tar folk had the sense to combine -z and -j into a single flag.
-ml
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