On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:38:24PM -0400, Andre Robatino wrote: > On 09/23/2009 07:17 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Andre Robatino (andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > >> If I understand correctly what the problem is - that successfully > >> xz-uncompressing a file requires being on the same endian arch as the > >> one it was compressed on - that's just wrong. It shouldn't be > >> platform-dependent at all. > > > > That is not the issue. There are two issues: > > > > - Compressing a file on different arches, while it produces output > > that any arch can decompress, does produce *different* output. > > - Compression of xz is not fast. > > Ah, OK. But hasn't openSUSE been using xz in their deltarpms since 11.0 > (over a year ago)? What are they doing differently so they aren't affected? 1) Maybe they don't build noarch rpms on ppc 2) They use a faster compression, that creates bigger output. At least I remember something like this mentioned in this thread or some other discussion. Regards Till
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