Bug 589692

Summary:	dev-lang/php: please use .tar.xz instead of .tar.bz2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hanno Böck <hanno>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	PHP Bugs <php-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2016-07-25 17:42:36 UTC

The php ebuilds currently use the .tar.bz2 tarballs from upstream. PHP upstream also provides .tar.xz tarballs.

Gentoo supports .xz tarballs since EAPI 3, therefore there's no reason not to use them. Will safe some bandwith and disk space.

Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2016-07-25 18:13:59 UTC

Not to mention that .xz uncompresses faster than .bz2

Comment 2 Brian Evans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-07-26 14:51:44 UTC

Fixed with the latest versions