Summary: | Support parallel variants of compressors for binpkgs (e.g. by allowing command selection) | ||
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Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Esteve Varela Colominas <esteve.varela> |
Component: | Enhancement/Feature Requests | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | ajak, esteve.varela |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Esteve Varela Colominas
2024-02-10 18:33:04 UTC
> However, neither of these solutions seems to be meant to change the compressor used for creating and extracting binpkgs.
Does switching the default via app-alternatives not allow you to affect what Portage uses as `bzip2`, `gzip`, etc?
They do, but they also change the system-wide defaults, which may be undesireable. In my case, I just don't want to deviate from the secure and well-tested reference implementations where I don't have a reason to fully trust the archive, or don't want to risk data loss. |