Re: .xz (was CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/autoconf)

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:58:16 +0900, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:33:26PM +0100, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> > This is now using .xz compression for the source archive. While there's
> > a fair chance xz will be the next bzip2, I'd prefer if we refrain from
> > jumping onto this bandwagon until there is a stable release and we
> > decide we want .xz utilities in base.
>
> Since pkgsrc infrastructure already supports it automatically, I don't
> see a reason to avoid using it -- except perhaps for the lowest-level
> packages needed for bootstrapping pkgsrc, but I don't see autoconf as
> being one of them.
>  Thomas

IMO...
I usually prefer .xz -> .bz2 -> .gz -> .Z to avoid extra dependency
(breakage of the archiver package introduce failure at 1st step, "make 
extract").

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