Hi Otavio, On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Otavio Salvador wrote: > It seems XZ support has been included in 1.0.21, as can be seen at:
Yeah but debian-installer doesn't have bzip2 and xz in the host so it's not really useful... you saw the recent bugs when libacl used bz2 compression. > About the use of xz I see no reason to use for base packages as it > has following consequences: > > * bigger memory footprint; This is mostly moot, it's 10Mb with the default compression level that we plan to use. > * xz dependecy in host; This is true but it's relatively small in size. That said if you want to avoid it, what are the base packages where it must absolutely be avoided? All essential + their (transitive) dependencies? I mean at some point dpkg and their dependencies have been unpacked and debootstrap can/could switch to the chrooted dpkg instead of using tar.xz + ar from the host. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
