[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add support for the xz archive format

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Wed May 13 06:43:54 EDT 2009


Am Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2009 10:00:55 schrieb Xavier:
> To sum up the problems I expect :
> * xdelta will be inefficient with xz packages since it does not recognize
> it * when it recognizes it, the sync.c code will need to be updated.

I did not have a closer look at pacman's code but can't we just uncompress the 
packages ourself and let xdelta handle plain tar files?

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