On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Dale Blount <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:16 +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> some of us already commit xz compressed packages, others don't. We didn't >> really decide on this yet. >> >> So, is there a reason not to recommond every TU and Dev to change PKGEXT to >> .pkg.tar.xz? >> >> We might also want to write a little announcement to inform users about this >> change. While most of them wont be affected, some would have to adjust their >> custom scripts. And for those who use netinstall on a 2009.02 or older iso >> would have to run pacman -Syu once to get a version of libarchive which is >> able to deal with xz. > > > If we do this, we should leave pacman and libarchive in a historic > format for quite a while (or forever). Those packages are already small > enough it doesn't really matter.
I was going to respond to this thread and say we should keep a small subset of packages in tar.gz format for things like this. Most of them happen to be mine, but: * pacman * libarchive * libfetch * zlib ? * glibc ? * bash ? -Dan
