On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:38:32AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 01:27 -0400, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > Boy, I'm so glad we decided to jump onto the xz ship. >> > >> I take it it's too late to back out and stick to bzip2 until the >> situation stabilizes? I take it whatever solution ends up in F-12 is >> likely to be the one used by RHEL 6 when it comes out next spring. >> >> Between using more space on a distribution that's smaller than Fedora >> anyway, and having a rather uncertain compression tool... > >It's only 'uncertain' in the sense that it's not committed to always >producing the same archive in future versions or on different >architectures. As has been pointed out, this only has any relevance when Simple solution: Don't build the noarch RPMs on ppc. Why?: Because F12 is the last release that will have ppc be a primary arch and it is fairly arguable that you want to optimize for the future case going forward anyway. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
