[gobolinux-devel] [gobolinux-commits] r3153 - trunk/ChrootCompile/bin

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:22:56 +0200, Hisham <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:46 AM,  <mohjive at svn.gobolinux.org> wrote:
>> Author: mohjive
>>  Date: 2008-04-07 06:46:33 -0700 (Mon, 07 Apr 2008)
>>  New Revision: 3153
>>
>>  Modified:
>>    trunk/ChrootCompile/bin/ChrootCompile
>>  Log:
>>  We no longer need Atool but we need LZMA-Utils.
>
> Why do we need LZMA-Utils?
>
> The fact that your new archiving scripts support them is not a strong
> enough reason, since Atool supports a bunch of archive formats which
> we never added to the base dependencies.
>
All recent releases of GNU utils (coreutils, automake, m4) have dropped
switched from tar.bz2 to tar.lzma. I have a feeling that all newer GNU
releases will be that way. Sure tar.gz is still available, but those
archives are close to three times bigger.

-- 
/Jonas

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