From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 04:37:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m363tnc1p6.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4823039E.4020008@gentoo.org> (Doug Goldstein's message of "Thu, 08 May 2008 09:43:58 -0400")
>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> writes:
Doug> If you read the lzma changelogs, it appears to imply that newer
Doug> ones won't be able to read older formats. The changelog
Doug> specifically states if a user they are handling the issue
Doug> "gracefully" by telling the user to upgrade or downgrade their
Doug> lzma.
My understanding is that the new utils will be able to uncompress
current archives, but will not be able to create them and also will
be unable to convert current archives to the new format w/o a full
(and time-consuming) uncompress/compress cycle.
-JimC
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 13:23 [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage Mart Raudsepp
2008-05-07 13:34 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-05-08 18:45 ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-05-08 19:09 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-05-08 19:17 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-05-08 19:21 ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-05-17 15:55 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-10 7:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-10 7:36 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-05-10 9:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-07 14:12 ` Natanael Copa
2008-05-07 14:55 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-05-08 8:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-05-08 10:49 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-05-08 10:59 ` Graham Murray
2008-05-08 11:31 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-05-08 11:41 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-05-07 14:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Benedikt Morbach
2008-05-07 15:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-05-07 15:02 ` Benedikt Morbach
2008-05-07 16:06 ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-05-07 18:38 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-07 20:01 ` Richard Freeman
2008-05-07 20:10 ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-08 0:52 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-05-08 13:17 ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-08 13:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-05-08 13:32 ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-08 13:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-05-08 13:43 ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-09 8:37 ` James Cloos [this message]
2008-05-08 14:30 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-05-08 13:41 ` Doug Goldstein
2008-05-08 14:33 ` Robert Buchholz
2008-05-09 1:04 ` Ryan Hill
2008-05-08 11:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
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