Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:14:57 -0200 | Subject | Re: [kernel.org mirrors] XZ Migration discussion | From | (Carlos Carvalho) |
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H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com) wrote on 11 February 2010 11:48: >On 02/11/2010 10:36 AM, J.H. wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> Migration option 2) >> >> At some point there would be a mass conversion of all >> existing content to include .bz2 and .xz. These would >> be run in parallel for a time period until it was >> determined that .bz2 was no longer needed and it would >> be removed from the servers leaving .gz and .xz >> Option 2) >> >> Convert the master data from gz to bz2 and use xz as the new file >> format. This has the downside of causing more tool churn as it means >> the kernel developers will have to eventually convert from gz to bz2, >> which means for a time there will be nag e-mails if you upload gz >> instead of bz2 and such. It would also mean that we (kernel.org) would >> need to be able to support .gz and .bz2 as master data for a time. >> >> Migration options are identical to Option 1 more or less, with either >> just new content getting converted, or all content getting converted. > >My personal recommendation would be for Option 1, Migration option 2.
Agreed (speaking for the ftp.br.kernel.org mirror).
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