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

Justin Patrin papercrane at gmail.com
Sat Oct 21 00:41:23 UTC 2006


On 10/20/06, Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> 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.
>

Oh, is *that* what he meant... Yeah, that's a good idea. ;-)

-- 
Justin Patrin




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