On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Colin Watson wrote: > > 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 ...
Nope, sorry. I was referring to things like GNOME shipping only .tar.xz. I mean they would not take such a decision if getting an xz decompressor was a pain on many systems. ftp.gnu.org also ships .tar.xz nowadays. > > 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. Ok, then maybe a first step is to verify if deboostrap + busybox's unxz work correctly together to setup a debian chroot with all base packages recompiled with xz. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- 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/20110812125032.ge23...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
