Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7

From: Justin P. Mattock
Date: Sat Feb 06 2010 - 18:05:03 EST


On 02/06/10 14:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:


On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:

But we've certainly fixed a few things, and it's been a week, so here's
-rc7. I wish I could say that it's the last -rc, but I strongly doubt
that, and we'll almost certainly have at least one more.

Oh, and I forgot to ask one thing I had intended to ask in the release
notes..

Do people really care about the old-fashioned tar.gz and patch.gz files?
I've always uploaded the tar-files and patches compressed with gzip,
because that's the "traditional" way, and then we have a script that also
re-compresses things as 'bz2' because it compresses better and many people
are bandwidth-limited and much prefer the better compression.

Of course, if you really care about bandwidth, you're better off just
fetching the git trees instead, but the question for non-git users is:

Would it be ok to _only_ have the 'bz2' patches and tar-balls?

Having two copies of every large file seems silly, if nobody really
requires the traditional .gz format..

Linus
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having .bz2 is always what I use, but one thing I've noticed if you
have a system without bzip2(or whatever the package tar depends on), tar wont work with those.
I'd say keep with .tar.gz this way any system will always
uncompressed.

Justin P. Mattock

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