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

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 14:58 -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
> What exactly are you referring to? Which distributed files? OE doesn't
> really distribute anything but an OE db and that's one-time downloaded
> when starting.
> 
> If you mean the images distributed from OE, that's a distribution
> choice and OZ in particular can't just make the choice to switch
> without adding a static binary of bzip2 (for flashing) and changing
> its flashing script.

I think Paul means things other people distribute i.e. packages
referenced in SRC_URIs. He's suggesting we prefer bz2 over gz given a
choice which seems like a good idea.

Cheers,

Richard