Thanks for the detailed reply Eli :)
Before I go further, I should mention that this thread has sparked some
interest among our teammates,
and folks on IRC are researching now a possibility of switching from xz to zstd
entirely.
So I think we will return to this topic soon with some updates :)
On 3/18/19 5:56 AM, Maxim Baz via arch-projects wrote:
> I did see an earlier patch proposing the same, which was rejected because it
> might break delta packages [1].
> However, someone mentioned that pacman is dropping support for delta packages
> altogether [2] referring to a removal commit
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:58:57AM +0100, Levente Polyak via arch-projects
wrote:
> Messing with this in devtools used for building official repo packages kills
> reproducible builds when not agreed on very specific flags and tools to
> compress.
> This is not a good idea to do and we won't
On March 18, 2019 10:56:34 AM GMT+01:00, Maxim Baz via arch-projects
wrote:
>I did see an earlier patch proposing the same, which was rejected
>because it might break delta packages [1].
>However, someone mentioned that pacman is dropping support for delta
>packages altogether [2] referring to a
I did see an earlier patch proposing the same, which was rejected because it
might break delta packages [1].
However, someone mentioned that pacman is dropping support for delta packages
altogether [2] referring to a removal commit in pacman repo [3], so I wanted to
bring this up again :)
I'm
This allows using faster multicore compression tools like pixz
Signed-off-by: Maxim Baz
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archbuild.in | 2 +-
makechrootpkg.in | 18 +-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/archbuild.in b/archbuild.in
index bd5706d..e3d53ec 100644
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