[syslinux] Use .xz (LZMA) for posting releases?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jul 21 09:34:33 PDT 2010


On 07/21/2010 12:26 AM, Shantanu Gadgil wrote:
> Hi,
> Would it be possible to ship the releases using xz (or lzma) ?
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  3423720 Jul 20 12:17 syslinux-4.02-pre5.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  3423147 Jul 20 12:17 syslinux-4.02-pre5.tar.lzma
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  4395234 Jul 20 12:17 syslinux-4.02-pre5.tar.bz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 20080640 Jul 20 12:17 syslinux-4.02-pre5.tar
> 

xz will be introduced when it gets universally introduced on kernel.org,
which probably will happen around the end of the year or so.

	-hpa

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