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From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH cygport] xorg.cygclass: Allow configuration of default SRC_URI compression
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:41:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <757a2e58f75db0ea9da6f2b8b4537ffd1a1efb87.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220411125855.20219-1-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>

On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 13:58 +0100, Jon Turney wrote:
> Historically, xorg packages were usually provided as .gz and .bz2
> compressed tarballs.  The current trend is to no longer provide .bz2,
> but .gz and .xz instead.  Allow the compression to be configured, with a
> backwards compatible default.

If all or even most current packages use .xz, then maybe just default to that
and define XORG_SRC_COMPRESSION for the (current) exceptions?

-- 
Yaakov


  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-12  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-11 12:58 Jon Turney
2022-04-12  0:41 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2022-04-13 17:58   ` Jon Turney

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