Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

[Ghee Teo <ghee teo oracle com>]

I hope this does not imply or infer that all the source tarball for 
GNOME will be uploaded in .xz format only. Solaris is *not* supporting 
.xz by default yet. This means, anyone who want to compile source code 
modules will have difficulties.

Just want to clarify.

-Ghee


On 19/03/2011 11:19, Olav Vitters wrote:
> Note: breaking thread on purpose.
>
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:31:23PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:15:34PM +0000, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > >  From a Debian POV, we can't upload .xz upstream tarballs yet (dpkg supports it,
> > > but the ftp-masters don't allow it), though most likely that will change soon.
> > Could you ask when they'd allow that? And please mention we're
> > considering switching. Don't want it to result in people compressing
> > again though.
> I'm in the finishing stages to have all our scripts support .tar.xz
> (install-module, release team scripts). Once that is complete, I plan to
> send an 'intend to switch' announcement mail.
>
> As a pre-warning, could you please ask the ftp-masters again to support
> .xz?
>
>
>
> Note: the only reason the .tar.xz support is taking so long is because
> I'm rewriting everything (see sysadmin-bin and releng modules).
> Further, if you want the Python tarball module to automatically support
> .tar.xz, see the ftpadmin script in sysadmin-bin module for a way (works
> with Python 2.6; requires pyliblzma).