From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PvYtF-0004Lc-FW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:34:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FF5C1C035; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.jolexa.net (mail.jolexa.net [69.164.203.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5D41C00A for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.jolexa.net (Postfix, from userid 5001) id DCF2B5EF78; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on helios.jolexa.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 Received: from mail.jolexa.net (mail.jolexa.net [69.164.203.224]) by mail.jolexa.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9615C156 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:33:08 -0600 From: Jeremy Olexa To: Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Remove .lzma in favor of .xz portage snapshots Message-ID: <975b3aa77e0581133ca9eb4bf75b7db1@webmail.jolexa.net> X-Sender: darkside@gentoo.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.6-svn X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7de1b57ce531fdf33d33b5b070006436 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.