Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (808 mails)

[Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 08:29:19AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > I would like to propose replacing (not removing) the default command
> > line tools for compression, specifically "gzip" for "pigz" and "bzip2"
> > for pbzip2.
> > These tools are backward compatible and have dramatically better
> > performance because they do compression in parallel utilizing current
> > multiple CPU machines.
> >
> > Possible paths to do this
> >
> > a) Simple adding "update-alternatives" support to all the mentioned
> > tools and let the user to decide, however we install pigz and pbzip2
> > by default. I do not endorse this way.
> >
> > b) Building pigz with executable name "gzip" and rename gzip to
> > gnu-gzip, and bzip2 to bzip2.old or something similar. This is the way
> > endorse
>
> What is the reason for keeping the old tools? 

In case there is a bug in pigz/pbzip2 (you know, all sw has bugs :) ), it
will be handy to have the old tools.


Petr

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