Re: different compression types for NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest/ sets

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Wed, 1 Oct 2025 19:21:41 -0700
    From:        Steve Rikli <sr%genyosha.net@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <aN3htRaXIIQoYcH6%dragon.home.genyosha.net@localhost>


  | First question: is the difference intentional? E.g. is there some reason
  | tgz (tar.gz) is preferred over tar.xz for certain architectures?


Yes, the only difference (obviously) is which compression method is
used - xz makes smaller files than gzip (gz) but is much slower to
compress, and more importantly, uses lots more memory to decompress.

So, using xz means smaller set sizes (faster network transfer times)
but requires the system installing them to have sufficient memory to
achieve that (if relying upon paging, unpacking might take forever).

kre