From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/10194 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: New Exherbo+musl stage: x86_64-pc-linux-musl-20160621 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:37:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20160622163700.GQ10893@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20160621202207.32c23d4b@rafaela> <644E2E3D-9870-4FBC-9463-F70E1129FB98@shiz.me> <20160622122030.61bfcd2b@rafaela> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466613449 10594 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2016 16:37:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:37:29 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-10207-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Jun 22 18:37:22 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bFl9Q-00057a-EH for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:37:16 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3783 invoked by uid 550); 22 Jun 2016 16:37:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 3765 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2016 16:37:12 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160622122030.61bfcd2b@rafaela> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:10194 Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 12:20:30PM -0300, Matias A. Fonzo wrote: > El Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:01:17 +0200 > Shiz escribió: > > > On 22 Jun 2016, at 01:22, Matias A. Fonzo wrote: > > > > > >> The latest musl stage can always be found at: > > >> https://www.somasis.com/stages/exherbo-x86_64-pc-linux-musl-current.tar.xz > > > > > > Please, consider switching to another format, like lzip/clzip. See: > > > > > > http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html > > > > Switching to a format almost nobody has a decompressor for, > > especially for something like a stage3 that is often extracted in a > > live environment with no options to extra install packages, doesn’t > > seem like a good idea. > > > > - Shiz > > Distribute files and impose to your users in having xz, is a bad idea. Decompressing xz is supported by busybox and internally by busybox tar and gnu tar, so I don't see any practical risk of the user not having support. On the other hand, nobody has ever heard of lzip or clzip and they're certainly not supported in the widely available tools. For a compression format (from the perspective of the party doing the decompression), the only technical details that are relevant are the compression ratios and the memory and time requirements for decompressing. Rich