On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:19:55PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > As Ansgar mentionned, it creates a new requirement: for debootstrap to work > xz must be present and it's currently not present in debian-installer.
The main thing I consider to be difficult is that putting xz-compressed packages in the base system requires people on foreign systems to have an xz decompressor available. To a large extent this is outside our control. > Since hardcoding gzip for base packages seems to be a bit brittle, > we need to work towards allowing xz usage in debian-installer and accept > it as a dependency for deboostrap on non-Debian systems (I don't think > it's a big issue, xz is portable and is more and more widely used). Can you quantify that? I don't have hard numbers for the non-Debian systems where people report running debootstrap; perhaps you do ... > I guess that a first step is to have an xz udeb... No. busybox already has an unxz applet, so if we choose to do this then we should enable that applet in busybox-udeb, not add a separate udeb. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110811225511.ga20...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk
