lzma instead of bzip2 for packages compression ?

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Tue Apr 24 16:27:00 GMT 2012


On 04/24/2012 10:21 AM, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> The cygwin 'tar.bz2' packages are created once and broadcasted to many
> hosts.
> 
> The lzma compression is fast for decompression.  Could we possibly get
> the packages with lzma compression ?

lzma is obsolete.  If anything, we want xz.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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