[arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Support xz compressed packages

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Mon Feb 15 11:47:53 EST 2010


Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 17:27:51 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
> if you have one reason why it should be useful

I found one myself. pacman, libarchive and xz-utils should stay in gz format 
for a while to make it possible to update old machines which haven't been 
updated for long.

BUT: for these rare cases we can simply use repo-add etc. directly.

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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