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

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

Posted Feb 23, 2010 12:58 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: "...the tools are not yet widely available in distributions" by magnus
Parent article: Compression formats for kernel.org

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


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"...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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