Request for splitting oxygen-icons tarball

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Mar 2 18:16:54 UTC 2012


On Friday 02 March 2012, Eric Hameleers wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 February 2012, Harald Sitter wrote:
> >> Phonon only does xz tarballs, so dep-wise xz is required anyway... you
> >> might just as well do the kde release tars in xz too ;)
> > 
> > I'm fine with switching to xz. anyone having a problem with that?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dirk
> 
> Slackware's preferred archive compression is xz. So, you have my
> blessing.

Same in Fedora. The order of preference is xz > bz2 > gz (the smaller, the 
better, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL , so in 
practice we'll normally want xz, and it's also what our binary RPMs use).

        Kevin Kofler


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