[oe] [RFC] Preferring tar.bz2 over tar.gz if there's a choice

[Richard Purdie]

On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 00:33 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>   Nowadays, with multimegabyte software downloads, many projects
> provide both tar.bz2 and tar.gz archives for downloads. I'd like to
> make a proposal that we prefer tar.bz2 over .gz for obvious reason of
> saving bandwidth and disk space for lots of people using OE. In
> particular, I'd like to propose that it's ok to change .gz to .bz2 if
> such case is spotted.

FWIW, I'm perfectly ok with that preference. It was mentioned to me a
while ago regarding the Zaurus kernels and I hope I did change to prefer
bz2, I certainly intended to :).

Please go ahead and check in changes for anything you've noticed.

Regards,

Richard