[arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially?

[Dale Blount]

On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:16 +0100, Pierre Schmitz 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 we do this, we should leave pacman and libarchive in a historic
format for quite a while (or forever).  Those packages are already small
enough it doesn't really matter.

Dale