Re: enable XZ to compress updates?

On 2011-02-04 08:22, Gilles Espinasse wrote:

>>> That could only be done in two steps.
>>> First, add xz in installed files, then compress next update with xz
>>
>> OK for that.
>>
> Due to how lfs/updates work, that mean 1.9.18 and 1.9.19 build as
> patch.tar.gz and later build as tar.xz.

Yeah, we'd need to change installpackage in 1.9.19 though. Probably 
easiest (for testing etc.) to make it possible to use both .gz and .xz.
Later we can fully remove support for .gz updates.


Olaf

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