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Bug 292302 - Portage support for alternative compression methods for binpkgs
Summary: Portage support for alternative compression methods for binpkgs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 142579
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Binary packages support (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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: 405891 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2009-11-07 20:53 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified: 2012-10-22 01:45 UTC (History)
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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-11-07 20:53:24 UTC 
Currently the Portage binpkgs are compressed with bzip2 which is CPU-intensive to unpack; given that other distributions (Mandriva, Fedora, SuSE) are well into using LZMA for the compression, it'd be a nice thing to be able to choose the compression method, and thus use, say, xv for compressing and decompressing the tarballs.
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2012-02-26 22:35:23 UTC 
*** Bug 405891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2012-10-22 01:45:00 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142579 ***