Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only

2014-02-20 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-02-20, o godz. 14:12:17 > Lars Wendler napisał(a): > > > So what can we do? Three solutions came to my mind which I list > > here in the order first being my favorite, last being my least > > favorite: > > > > 1.) > > Make portage'

Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only

2014-02-20 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-02-20, o godz. 14:12:17 Lars Wendler napisał(a): > So what can we do? Three solutions came to my mind which I list > here in the order first being my favorite, last being my least > favorite: > > 1.) > Make portage's unpack function lzip compatible Three packages still don't sound lik

Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only

2014-02-20 Thread Christoph Junghans
2014-02-20 8:19 GMT-07:00 Mike Gilbert : > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> it seems like some GNU projects start to release their source tarballs >> in lzip compressed versions only [1][2]. >> This is a problem since portage's unpack function doesn't know anything

Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only

2014-02-20 Thread Lars Wendler
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:28:30 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: >Last time I checked, lzip compressed slightly worse and was slower >than xz-utils, so there really is no reason why one would want to use >it. Maybe more important, even if lzip was at par with xz-utils, the >latter has won the competition

Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only

2014-02-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Lars Wendler wrote: > it seems like some GNU projects start to release their source > tarballs in lzip compressed versions only [1][2]. This is a problem > since portage's unpack function doesn't know anything about lzip. > For sys-fs/ddrescue (where I am the Gentoo pack

Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only

2014-02-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Lars Wendler wrote: > Hi, > > it seems like some GNU projects start to release their source tarballs > in lzip compressed versions only [1][2]. > This is a problem since portage's unpack function doesn't know anything > about lzip. > > ... > > What do you think? >