From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20084 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2012 17:17:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 20073 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Apr 2012 17:17:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp6-g21.free.fr (HELO smtp6-g21.free.fr) (212.27.42.6) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:17:07 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (unknown [78.239.83.1]) by smtp6-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835F682268 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:17:01 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4F96E00B.7000401@wanadoo.fr> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:17:00 -0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Bouat?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120313 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: lzma instead of bzip2 for packages compression ? References: <4F96D2FD.1040907@wanadoo.fr> <4F96D45D.70204@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4F96D45D.70204@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00556.txt.bz2 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 lzma is obsolete.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. > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple