Hello all, This email is to solicit concerns or thoughts about removing
the .lzma portage snapshots.
The facts:
- Starting on 2011-03-03, I enabled .xz compression on snapshots that
Gentoo makes available[1].
- On 2011-01-05, Mike added[2] .xz support to emerge-webrsync.
- xz-utils is now in the system set[3] anyway and .xz instead of .lzma
should eliminate some confusion for new users.
That is about all I can think of. My opinion is that this is mostly a
cosmetic change (as lzma is generated via xz-utils anyway) but makes
sense given the popular[4] compression choices. I'd like to target
2011-04-01 as the date to turn off lzma generation. After generation is
turned off, the lzma archives will fall off the mirrors in 7 days. Any
concerns?
Thanks,
Jeremy
[1]: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/
[2]:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=9ff806
[3]:
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_998b4e7fdf578346bb5cfc66be340f7d.xml
[4]: Without known data to back this up, I'm using the short options of
tar(1) to form some opinion as presented by the community.
