From: "Jérôme Bouat" <jerome.bouat@wanadoo.fr>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: lzma instead of bzip2 for packages compression ?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F96E00B.7000401@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F96D45D.70204@redhat.com>
In case you want to use xz, the '--extreme' option prevides a higher compression ratio than lzma with the same memory requirement for decompression.
Le 24/04/2012 18:27, Eric Blake a écrit :
> On 04/24/2012 10:21 AM, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> The cygwin 'tar.bz2' packages are created once and broadcasted to many
>> hosts.
>>
>> The lzma compression is fast for decompression. Could we possibly get
>> the packages with lzma compression ?
>
> lzma is obsolete. If anything, we want xz.
>
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2012-04-24 16:21 Jérôme Bouat
2012-04-24 16:27 ` Eric Blake
2012-04-24 17:17 ` Jérôme Bouat [this message]
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