Am Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:47:53 +0100 schrieb Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]>:
> Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 17:27:51 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > if you have one reason why it should be useful > > I found one myself. pacman, libarchive and xz-utils should stay in gz > format for a while to make it possible to update old machines which > haven't been updated for long. > > BUT: for these rare cases we can simply use repo-add etc. directly. > any idea how long it takes to compress OOo main package? as far as I know it needs a lot more time than gz/bz compression. does xz make use of SMP cpus? if not it's not an improvement and we should think about pbzip that now supports tar interaction and pipes! -Andy
