On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:10:13 +0900 Hideki Yamane <henr...@debian.or.jp> wrote:
> Just a question, is there any reason not provide Packages.xz and > Contents-<arch>.xz in package repository? I cannot find any information > about it, so please tell me. A stable release freeze is not the time to go changing stuff like this ... all the tools which use and generate the Packages.gz and Contents-<arch>.gz files would need support for .xz in place *in current stable* before this could be changed permanently. Does apt have support already? If it doesn't, then it's too late to consider this for Wheezy which means that the stable release into which this support could be implemented is Jessie which means that the change couldn't be made until after the Jessie release. The AptToSid derivative is already using .xz, so maybe there is support in apt, I haven't checked (but a quick run through the apt-cache manpage doesn't mention it): http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/aptosid/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/ A bit of testing using that mirror could provide real data for this question. > I think provide Packages.xz rather than bzip2 is better choice (if we can). It's worth exploring but the first steps are to test with existing repositories using .xz and to generate a second repository with only .xz files and see what breaks... e.g. it looks from a cursory glance at the manpage that reprepro can update from repositories which use .xz compression but whether it can then produce .xz instead of .gz would need testing / input from Bernhard.... -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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