#2974: Many packages now available as .tar.xz
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Reporter: rafe | Owner: lfs-book@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: lowest | Milestone: 7.1
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: trivial | Keywords: xz packages
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Comment(by bdubbs@…):
I guess I wasn't clear. How significant is 10M when disks are measured in
TB? We don't download over a 300 baud modem any more.
The entire LFS7 package set is 295M including patches. A reduction of
less than 10% overall is just not significant.
User's are free to use any format they desire - gz, bz2, xz, etc.
I don't even have a problem with using the xz format of a package when a
new version is incorporated in the book, but I am not in favor of revising
the book for current package versions just to reduce the download size by
10-20M.
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