On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 01:55:48AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Some time has passed and the current situation in sid is this:
>
> COMP=xz → 158 packages
> COMP=gz → 5 packages
>
> The ones using gzip are:
>
> base-files_9.6_amd64.deb
> base-passwd_3.5.39_amd64.deb
>
Hi!
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 13:33:35 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> It seems there's quite many binary packages in the base system using
> xz as compressor instead of gzip, since the switch to xz as default,
> which might make debootstrapping from non-Debian systems harder. After
> running the
On Sep 01, Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org wrote:
If anybody really cares then I suggest that they add support for xzdec
to debootstrap.
debootstrap has supported data.tar.xz since 2010. The thing that's
relevant here, which is outside our control, is whether the non-Debian
systems from
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014, at 10:24, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I know, but if systems on which xz-utils is not easily available really
exist then the interested parties could replace it with xzdec which is
small and statically linked.
Is there such system or are we having an academic debate again?
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Ondřej Surý wrote:
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014, at 10:24, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I know, but if systems on which xz-utils is not easily available really
exist then the interested parties could replace it with xzdec which is
small and statically linked.
Is there such system or
On Sep 02, Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org wrote:
I know, but if systems on which xz-utils is not easily available really
exist then the interested parties could replace it with xzdec which is
small and statically linked.
Is there such system or are we having an academic debate again?
I am
Hi!
It seems there's quite many binary packages in the base system using
xz as compressor instead of gzip, since the switch to xz as default,
which might make debootstrapping from non-Debian systems harder. After
running the follwing:
$ debootstrap --download-only sid sid-root-path
$ cd
On 01/09/14 12:33, Guillem Jover wrote:
It seems there's quite many binary packages in the base system using
xz as compressor instead of gzip, since the switch to xz as default,
which might make debootstrapping from non-Debian systems harder.
According to your report, 145 out of 166 base
On Sep 01, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote:
with COMP=xz gives 145 packages, with COMP=gz it gives 21. So I guess
it would make sense to decide if people still care about bootstrapping
from other systems where xz-utils might not be available. I think a
Not at all.
If anybody really
Hi!
[ CCing Joey, as he was one of the people who seemed to care about this
at the time, and might be able to improve the current situation, if
he still cares, see below. ]
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 13:30:55 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
On 01/09/14 12:33, Guillem Jover wrote:
It seems there's
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 01:57:10PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Sep 01, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote:
with COMP=xz gives 145 packages, with COMP=gz it gives 21. So I guess
it would make sense to decide if people still care about bootstrapping
from other systems where xz-utils
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On 09/01/2014 at 11:45 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 01:57:10PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Sep 01, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote:
with COMP=xz gives 145 packages, with COMP=gz it gives 21. So I
guess it would
On 01/09/14 16:58, The Wanderer wrote:
Unless debootstrap relies on the outside source to perform that
decompression, of course, but in that case I'm not sure what it would
even mean to say that debootstrap supports xz in the first place.
In this case debootstrap supports xz means debootstrap
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