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Bug 663314 - release sys-apps/portage source tarballs using the .tar.xz format
Summary: release sys-apps/portage source tarballs using the .tar.xz format
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2018-08-10 16:34 UTC by Francesco Turco
Modified: 2018-08-15 15:25 UTC (History)
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Description Francesco Turco 2018-08-10 16:34:02 UTC
Currently source tarballs for sys-apps/portage are released using the .tar.bz2 format, which is not as space efficient as .tar.xz.

On my system:

> $ du -k portage-2.3.45.tar.{bz2,xz}
> 988     portage-2.3.45.tar.bz2
> 904     portage-2.3.45.tar.xz

(portage-2.3.45.tar.xz has been compressed by me without any special tar setting besides --xz)

So we can effortlessly save about 8.5% of disk space and bandwidth.

What do you think?

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2018-08-10 16:38:05 UTC
Yes, .tar.xz would be fine, since it's supported by EAPI 5 that we use in the ebuilds.