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

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Justin,

Saturday, October 21, 2006, 3:41:23 AM, you wrote:

> 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. ;-)

  Sorry, my English skills might deteriorate towards midnight ;-)
Actually, jsut wanted to commit, asked Koen, he suggested post RFC to
list, hence the rambling... ;-)




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