On 03/30/2017 01:13 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > IMO distributing coreutils also in another format is the perfect > solution. It allows busybox users verify the integrity of the data, > makes easy for pristine-tar to reproduce the tarball, and is better for > long-term archiving. I can't find a single drawback in adding a second > tarball to the distribution.
Hmm, this wouldn't help for the - probably many - other packages which are shipped as *.xz only, e.g. GNU sed. Not that I would be strictly against a second compression format, but to me it seems like adding crc64 to busybox' xz would be easier than to ask every project to ship a second format, isn't it? Have a nice day, Berny
