From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [64.233.182.185] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gb5Td-0006wv-2o for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 03:16:41 +0200 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l23so1618955nfc for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.36.6 with SMTP id o6mr1491513nfj; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CUBE ( [85.202.124.214]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id y23sm3057265nfb.2006.10.20.18.09.28; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:09:28 +0300 From: Paul Sokolovsky X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <279597185.20061021040928@gmail.com> To: Justin Patrin In-Reply-To: <432beae0610201741t6bb6120dr7e7fabd23e56b432@mail.gmail.com> References: <595433076.20061021003331@gmail.com> <432beae0610201458l1bde9ca8v7877a6964e94e710@mail.gmail.com> <1161383956.6639.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> <432beae0610201741t6bb6120dr7e7fabd23e56b432@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] Preferring tar.bz2 over tar.gz if there's a choice X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Linux Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:16:41 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Justin, Saturday, October 21, 2006, 3:41:23 AM, you wrote: > On 10/20/06, Richard Purdie 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... ;-) -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com