On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Hi all,
some of us already commit xz compressed packages, others don't. We didn't really decide on this yet.
So, is there a reason not to recommond every TU and Dev to change PKGEXT to .pkg.tar.xz?
We might also want to write a little announcement to inform users about this change. While most of them wont be affected, some would have to adjust their custom scripts. And for those who use netinstall on a 2009.02 or older iso would have to run pacman -Syu once to get a version of libarchive which is able to deal with xz.
If wanted I also could add a check to devtools which issues a warning if xz is not used.
Greetings,
Pierre
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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
What about devs/tus who also maintain AUR packages? As I recall AUR doesn't accept .tar.xz yet?