Bug 520336

Summary:	Release stage3 tarballs in xz format
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Francesco Turco <fturco>
Component:	Stages	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Francesco Turco 2014-08-20 16:38:11 UTC

Currently stage3 tarballs are released in bz2 format. I'd like to suggest to move to the newer xz format. Kernel.org has already done that (since 2013-12-27): https://www.kernel.org/happy-new-year-and-good-bye-bzip2.html

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2014-08-20 16:42:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 434350 ***