9 May
2012
9 May
'12
06:43
On Tuesday, May 08, 2012 05:33:29 PM Brian K. White wrote:
Preferred just means preferred.
If the upstream offers tar.gz, tar.bz2 and tar.xz, use the tar.xz
I just had a package fail to package on several distros, include some old suse distros, because it used xz. When I switched it to bz2, it packaged on all distros! I did not recompress anything, the upstream offered all three! I think this policy is dumb. -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 pelliott@BlackPatchPanel.com PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117