On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:45:21PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > * Lars Wirzenius [Wed, Feb 15 2006, 10:42:02AM]: > > > (Once we use .tar.bz2, the sizes will be even smaller.) > > I cannot remember a clear consens from the "Size matters" thread, and > IMO we should go for 7zip at least for source packages.
There are a lot of problems with 7zip. They continue to fix various segfault bugs. It is rather windows-centric in its approach in many ways. They've recently added support for symlinks and file permission bits, and still don't support storing of uid/gid. You can probably pretty much forget storage of hard links and sparse files. I wouldn't be surprised to find various security bugs that have been long-since fixed in tar, such as unpacking files with names such as ../../../etc/passwd or whatnot. You may say that some of these don't matter for source archives. That is true to a certain extent, but security does matter there still. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
