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Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: gdb at sourceware dot org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, jim at meyering dot net
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:49:32 -0500
Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <20120126203148.GA30390@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83vcnyyww0.fsf@gnu.org>

On Thursday 26 January 2012 16:30:39 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Previous proposal by me:
> > 	xz for the new release tip
> > 	http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-09/msg00341.html
> 
> Please think a little about those who don't necessarily have a tar
> that knows about xz.  The world doesn't end with GNU/Linux.

why does tar have to know about xz ?  stdin hasn't suddenly stopped working.
	xzcat foo.tar.xz | tar xf -
-mike

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