Rollbackto .tgz proposal

Kamil Rytarowski <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:35:42 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

I propose to rollback to .tgz sets by default in all ports.

Rationale:

1. They introduce inconsistency between ports and versions, this breaks
upgrade scripts.
2. Overflowing .iso/.img files on the switched ports is unimportant
these days as ~everybody installs in a VM or with USB. Buying CDR is
almost as hard as buying floppies these days.
3. xz images are excessively CPU and memory hungry during the install
process. I find it faster (not benchmarked) to fetch bigger .tgz image +
unpack than fetch .tar.xz + unpack. Especially if I install the same
image several times in a VM.

I find the benefit of .tar.xz (smaller images to fetch) to be not worth
the trouble that is caused by this.

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