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"...the tools are not yet widely available in distributions"

"...the tools are not yet widely available in distributions"

Posted Feb 18, 2010 15:20 UTC (Thu) by dunlapg (subscriber, #57764)
Parent article: Compression formats for kernel.org

Ubuntu 9.04 doesn't seem to know anything about it.

Ubuntu 9.10 gives you a scary warning message:

You are about to do something potentially harmful
To continue type in the phrase ‘Yes, do as I say!’
?]

Not seeing this replacing bzip2 for at least another year or two.


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"...the tools are not yet widely available in distributions"

Posted Feb 18, 2010 19:24 UTC (Thu) by magnus (subscriber, #34778) [Link]

Looks like it conflicts with the lzma package that dpkg depends on..

"...the tools are not yet widely available in distributions"

Posted Feb 23, 2010 12:58 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

That's because lzma has been renamed to xz. They're the same thing.

"...the tools are not yet widely available in distributions"

Posted Feb 23, 2010 15:44 UTC (Tue) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]

Not exactly, AIUI the container format is different even if the compression algorithm is still the same.

"...the tools are not yet widely available in distributions"

Posted Feb 24, 2010 11:54 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

No, I mean the package called 'lzma' has been renamed to 'xz' in more recent versions. There are indeed a couple of different ways of using the LZMA algorithm to produce a compressed archive but this is a different issue.

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