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* Opportunity to download lzma compressed gcc snapshots
@ 2008-05-17 21:30 andre maute
  2008-05-20 15:06 ` Ian Lance Taylor
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: andre maute @ 2008-05-17 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gcc-help

I wanted to ask if there is an opportunity to
download lzma compressed archive files of gcc snapshots?

It does look like this could reduce one's download time

$ ls -l
total 100344
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 56086603 2008-05-17 15:56 gcc-4.4-20080418.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 46543224 2008-05-17 15:48 gcc-4.4-20080418.tar.lzma

Andre

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* Re: Opportunity to download lzma compressed gcc snapshots
  2008-05-17 21:30 Opportunity to download lzma compressed gcc snapshots andre maute
@ 2008-05-20 15:06 ` Ian Lance Taylor
  2008-05-20 16:09   ` andre maute
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ian Lance Taylor @ 2008-05-20 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: andre maute; +Cc: gcc-help

andre maute <andre.maute@gmx.de> writes:

> I wanted to ask if there is an opportunity to
> download lzma compressed archive files of gcc snapshots?

Not at present.  I think the first step would be to get support into
GNU tar.

Ian

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* Re: Opportunity to download lzma compressed gcc snapshots
  2008-05-20 15:06 ` Ian Lance Taylor
@ 2008-05-20 16:09   ` andre maute
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: andre maute @ 2008-05-20 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gcc-help

On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> andre maute <andre.maute@gmx.de> writes:
> > I wanted to ask if there is an opportunity to
> > download lzma compressed archive files of gcc snapshots?
>
> Not at present.  I think the first step would be to get support into
> GNU tar.

It looks like this has already be done

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html

Andre

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