From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JuO7J-0007jn-9p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 08:38:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D023E043D; Fri, 9 May 2008 08:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3D4E043D for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 08:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id ECD7240151; Fri, 9 May 2008 08:38:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1210322290; bh=GBZJBx91IWg2GWRKrA7GhQVokKJWmYg0hx36CpjOJ aU=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=vgTNjqK9c3jpIzkmN7CuubQGWThKSQHS6JPj6 08DuW4QfmiGI1ba4OOmvvk+T5OU5nVuNRU0fTST5b0yqLw0FleeDm8tvxZZVbuti6jN LaClw8fN9l/37TjQBqBvVi8BHON6VxOGMp7Tx0nEyM+rV3/tnPTKMQ4pymD/MdAw2NE = Received: by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 98E2921C011; Fri, 9 May 2008 08:37:57 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage In-Reply-To: <4823039E.4020008@gentoo.org> (Doug Goldstein's message of "Thu, 08 May 2008 09:43:58 -0400") References: <1210166592.19574.10.camel@localhost> <20080507185239.541383c9@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <4822FD54.4000904@gentoo.org> <20080508142844.0c5af157@snowcone> <482300F2.9030403@gentoo.org> <20080508143606.67bcfe6e@snowcone> <4823039E.4020008@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2007 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 04:37:34 -0400 Message-ID: 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=us-ascii X-Hashcash: 1:23:080509:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::IuYZbqcRHvmI4Lvt:0000000000000000000000000000000000IyXG X-Archives-Salt: 55dafa14-18b7-46c7-a133-c8080f894964 X-Archives-Hash: 33f6e19c5e94e56b51edbdd4e287ea6a >>>>> "Doug" == Doug Goldstein 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 -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list