On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 09:57 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Since RHEL5 support has been dropped for a while now, maybe it's time to > > revisit changing the tar format > > Yep, IIUC we should be fine for require pax support for the vintage of > Linux we required. *BSD should be fine too, so IIUC, their tar version > uses libarchive which supports pax. Windows has 7-zip which can do pax > and of course cygwin. Finally OS-X has the pax command and support in > the apple archive utility. > > So I think we're be fine to require it. > > While, we're changing this, I think we should probably take the opportunity > to also switch over to using 'xz' as our compression format, instead of gz. > Consider the 1.3.5 release compressed with different formats: > > 35109092 libvirt-1.3.5.tar.gz > 25573966 libvirt-1.3.5.tar.bz2 > 12112612 libvirt-1.3.5.tar.xz > > Those results seem pretty compelling to me :-) xz compression sure takes a lot of time! I vote yes to both, though :) -- Andrea Bolognani Software Engineer - Virtualization Team -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list