Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <200303202154.h2KLsDcT009516@marc2.theaimsgroup.com>
By author:    Hank Leininger <linux-kernel@progressive-comp.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On 2003-03-20, Joern Engel <joern () wohnheim ! fh-wedel ! de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 March 2003 17:39:20 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > > (b) On something as large as a .tar, decompressing a bz2 file to
> > > check the signature is really quite slow, compared with checking the
> > > signature of the compressed file.
> 
> > That shouldn't matter, most of the times. If you want to build the
> > code, you have to [bg]unzip anyway, so there is no extra cost.
> > And I have a hard time to think of a real-world application where you
> > don't want to unpack but need to verify the signature.
> 

Just to finish this debate: I have added support for generating .sign
files from .gz files, and those are currently being generated, but I
will not remove .gz.sign or .bz2.sign files.

	-hpa
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