On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:43, Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote: > Please can you add support for XZ-compressed .deb and/or tell us which > package should not use XZ compression so that we can modify them > to hardcode gzip usage?
It seems XZ support has been included in 1.0.21, as can be seen at: debootstrap (1.0.21) unstable; urgency=low [ Otavio Salvador ] * Apply patch from Clint Adams <[email protected]> to add support for gz/bz2/xz data.tar (closes: #458663). ... -- Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:11:06 -0300 About the use of xz I see no reason to use for base packages as it has following consequences: * bigger memory footprint; * xz dependecy in host; Specially the extra xz dependency can be problematic when using debootstrap in non-Debian systems. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAP9ODKoWOBXqCFTZuffSatX2_W=5_jcwfesrzwkn+o9+6o_...@mail.gmail.com
