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 1Gb26d-00015d-4y for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:40:43 +0200 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l23so1565006nfc for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.75.2 with SMTP id c2mr8836849nfl; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CUBE ( [85.202.124.214]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id n23sm2623995nfc.2006.10.20.14.33.31; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:33:31 +0300 From: Paul Sokolovsky X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <595433076.20061021003331@gmail.com> To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [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: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:40:43 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello openembedded-devel, Nowadays, with multimegabyte software downloads, many projects provide both tar.bz2 and tar.gz archives for downloads. I'd like to make a proposal that we prefer tar.bz2 over .gz for obvious reason of saving bandwidth and disk space for lots of people using OE. In particular, I'd like to propose that it's ok to change .gz to .bz2 if such case is spotted. We should be reasonably safe with this, as gzip can be considered pretty well a legacy archiver for big downloads now. The projects which started use bzip2 hardly give it up. And of course, many projects alreday use bzip2 solely, so it's not like adding a new dependency for OE. Specifically, I have such patches for gdb_6.4 and libxml2_2.6.26 now in my tree. (One would ask - why do I care up to the level of patchuing existing recipes? I'm exactly one of bandwidth-challenged, so try to use cheap local mirrors, and the mirrors of course usually have .bz2. I checked taht upstream actually provides .bz2, of course.) -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com