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

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

Posted Feb 24, 2010 11:54 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: "...the tools are not yet widely available in distributions" by johill
Parent article: Compression formats for kernel.org

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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