Hello again! On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 02:05:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > Oh, I'm sorry... the 0.12 branch didn't yet have this and where converted > > by the automatic publishing scripts for ftp.gnome.org from gz/bz2 to xz. > > > > I don't know exactly how they work, but I could investigate... Would > > still be interested in knowing more about what details are needed though. > > What xz compressor is used and with what options.
Upstream confirmed that the ftpadmin [1] script used by people uploading to ftp.gnome.org was in charge of converting the file from tar.whatever to tar.xz for the 0.12.7 release (and earlier). This script seems to rely on python-lzma [2] (pyliblzma) for Xz support. The python library seems to be a wrapper around liblzma [3] (lzma-utils). I've not found any particular options used, but they might be hiding in the details in any of the wrapping layers. [1]: http://git.gnome.org/browse/sysadmin-bin/tree/ftpadmin [2]: http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-lzma [3]: http://packages.debian.org/sid/liblzma-dev -- Andreas Henriksson
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