Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-27 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 19/03/11 12:25, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: On 19/03/11 11:19, Olav Vitters wrote: As a pre-warning, could you please ask the ftp-masters again to support .xz? They have included this item in their agenda for the meeting. I've told them that GNOME plans to switch to .xz soon and that

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 05:12:22PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: So I'd say .xz support will be in place in ~ 1 or 2 months. Definitely for GNOME 3.2, but hopefully way sooner. Great! Then I'll first everything from .tar.gz + .tar.bz2 to .tar.bz2 + .tar.xz as transition. Then before

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:42:01PM +, Ghee Teo wrote: On 21/03/2011 12:29, Olav Vitters wrote: I'd like to understand what the impact would be. So, whom would it affect (what kind of groups: users/developers/OS team/something else)? There are 2 aspect of these I can see at least:

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org

2011-03-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:10:14PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: OTOH I’d really appreciate to see digital signatures along with the tarballs. Please file a bug against sysadmin, Blue Sky component detailing exactly the idea. We don't have signatures, so I'd like (need) loads of detail: 1.

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-22 Thread Ghee Teo
On 22/03/2011 13:05, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:42:01PM +, Ghee Teo wrote: On 21/03/2011 12:29, Olav Vitters wrote: I'd like to understand what the impact would be. So, whom would it affect (what kind of groups: users/developers/OS team/something else)? There are 2

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Ghee Teo
I hope this does not imply or infer that all the source tarball for GNOME will be uploaded in .xz format only. Solaris is *not* supporting .xz by default yet. This means, anyone who want to compile source code modules will have difficulties. Just want to clarify. -Ghee On 19/03/2011 11:19,

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:55:05AM +, Ghee Teo wrote: I hope this does not imply or infer that all the source tarball for GNOME will be uploaded in .xz format only. Solaris is *not* supporting .xz by default yet. This means, anyone who want to compile source code modules will have

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:55:05AM +, Ghee Teo wrote: I hope this does not imply or infer that all the source tarball for GNOME will be uploaded in .xz format only. Solaris is *not* supporting .xz by default yet. This means,

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Hello Olav, What is the reasoning behind this move? Just storage savings? It seems to me that it will actually be easier to request our sponsors (RedHat/Novell/Oracle...) for more storage than pushing everyone into the pain of having to deal with such unfamiliar format. We are releasing .gz and

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:21, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: Hello Olav, What is the reasoning behind this move? Just storage savings? It seems to me that it will actually be easier to request our sponsors (RedHat/Novell/Oracle...) for more storage than pushing everyone into the pain

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:21:38PM +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: What is the reasoning behind this move? Just storage savings? It seems For xz: 1) Much faster download 2) Much smaller 3) Doesn't use a lot of memory when decompressing (9MB) 4) Uncompress speed seems similar to bz2 (as in: don't

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org

2011-03-21 Thread Dave Neary
Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: I am not trying to criticise the effort rather than trying to understand why is this such a big win. The explanation is in the following previous thread: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-March/msg2.html The problem is not storage, it

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:52:17PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: But mostly: Forgot my blue sky idea that I've almost completed: I'm working on automatically giving maintainers access to upload things to ftp.gnome.org. Then we'd be able to give way more people the ability to upload tarballs

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Sorry Olav, I thought this is actually going to happen soon and the decision was set in stone. 2011/3/21 Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:21:38PM +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: to me that it will actually be easier to request our sponsors (RedHat/Novell/Oracle...) for more

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org

2011-03-21 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2011/3/21 Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org: I also read with interest the xdelta stuff. The assumption seems to be that many people downloading tarballs have the previous version already. I would say that's a minority usecase... for my part, I tend to delete tarballs after downloading

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org

2011-03-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:02:12PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: I also read with interest the xdelta stuff. The assumption seems to be that many people downloading tarballs have the previous version already. As the previous install-module generated those diff files I assumed there was a usecase. So

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:10:58PM +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: 2011/3/21 Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl: Could you expand on the pain? Basically most distros won't ship it by default, at least not for now. Solaris/RHEL/SLED/CentOS are probably the worst cases here. But also custom

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Ghee Teo
On 21/03/2011 12:29, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:55:05AM +, Ghee Teo wrote: I hope this does not imply or infer that all the source tarball for GNOME will be uploaded in .xz format only. Solaris is *not* supporting .xz by default yet. This means, anyone who want to

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 21/03/11 15:29, Olav Vitters wrote: ATM I really like to switch to the new script (ftpadmin) before 3.0 as it correctly handles NEWS files and .0 releases.. \o/ That always annoyed me. Thanks! Emilio ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Ghee Teo ghee@oracle.com wrote: On 21/03/2011 12:29, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:55:05AM +, Ghee Teo wrote: I hope this does not imply or infer that all the source tarball for GNOME will be uploaded in .xz format only. Solaris is

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Ghee Teo ghee@oracle.com wrote: On 21/03/2011 17:02, Sandy Armstrong wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Ghee Teoghee@oracle.com  wrote: On 21/03/2011 12:29, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:55:05AM +, Ghee Teo wrote: I hope

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Ghee Teo
On 21/03/2011 17:02, Sandy Armstrong wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Ghee Teoghee@oracle.com wrote: On 21/03/2011 12:29, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:55:05AM +, Ghee Teo wrote: I hope this does not imply or infer that all the source tarball for GNOME will be

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-21 Thread Ghee Teo
On 21/03/2011 17:27, Sandy Armstrong wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Ghee Teoghee@oracle.com wrote: On 21/03/2011 17:02, Sandy Armstrong wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Ghee Teoghee@oracle.comwrote: On 21/03/2011 12:29, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org

2011-03-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 15:50 +0100, Olav Vitters a écrit : I would be interested to see download stats for the xd3 files once they go live! xdelta3 is very cool, even if few people use it. Due to the feedback from the last discussion, I didn't develop it. I can do so, should be

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org

2011-03-21 Thread Baybal Ni
On 21 March 2011 15:10, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 15:50 +0100, Olav Vitters a écrit : I would be interested to see download stats for the xd3 files once they go live! xdelta3 is very cool, even if few people use it. Due to the feedback from the last

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-20 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 08:45:31AM -0700, Baybal Ni wrote: What is xz? It is a different way to compress files. See http://tukaani.org/xz/ You have various method to compress a file. Commonly used ones are .gz and .bz2. Then there was .lzma shortly, but it has been superseded by .xz. The

Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-19 Thread Olav Vitters
Note: breaking thread on purpose. On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:31:23PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:15:34PM +, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: From a Debian POV, we can't upload .xz upstream tarballs yet (dpkg supports it, but the ftp-masters don't allow it),

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-19 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 19/03/11 11:19, Olav Vitters wrote: Note: breaking thread on purpose. On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:31:23PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:15:34PM +, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: From a Debian POV, we can't upload .xz upstream tarballs yet (dpkg supports it,

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Biebl
2011/3/19 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort po...@debian.org: On 19/03/11 11:19, Olav Vitters wrote: Note: breaking thread on purpose. On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:31:23PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:15:34PM +, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: From a Debian POV, we can't upload

Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

2011-03-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 03:55:18PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: 2011/3/19 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort po...@debian.org: On 19/03/11 11:19, Olav Vitters wrote: As a pre-warning, could you please ask the ftp-masters again to support .xz? They have included this item in their agenda for the