On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:55:19PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > > > No you just have to be a git expert, which is much easier isn't it: > > git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git > > > > You can grab and build the tarballs from the packages.foo.org pages > > (right-hand menu) or on the upstream website... > > Or motivate maintainers for your preferred environment... > > Incidentally, XZ sounds very much like Russian ХЗ acronym which can be > roughly translated as "hell knows" meaning "How do I know?" :) I'm > wondering if Andrey realized that :) > > Alexandre No. Xz format is becoming the leading format for compression for Linux binary packages. Slackware already switched to it, Red Hat is going to do this in its rpm format. You may also install 7zip 9.x to unpack this.
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