On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:16 +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > some of us already commit xz compressed packages, others don't. We didn't > really decide on this yet. > > So, is there a reason not to recommond every TU and Dev to change PKGEXT to > .pkg.tar.xz? > > We might also want to write a little announcement to inform users about this > change. While most of them wont be affected, some would have to adjust their > custom scripts. And for those who use netinstall on a 2009.02 or older iso > would have to run pacman -Syu once to get a version of libarchive which is > able to deal with xz.
If we do this, we should leave pacman and libarchive in a historic format for quite a while (or forever). Those packages are already small enough it doesn't really matter. Dale
