Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:13:32 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org mirrors] Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org |
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Ryan Finnie wrote: > > When I started mirroring kernel.org, I was under the assumption that > most of the world was still using .gz for the most part, and we are > under a space constraint that prevents us from having both formats (this > will change once we get the new server for OSS mirrors up and running). > However, Matt's stats are pretty interesting. So even though we > probably won't be depricating .gz right now, I've switched over my > mirror from .gz to .bz2. Peter, mark me (RN-RNO) down as converted. > > Now, if only GNU tar would read .gz OR .bz2 format when specifying -z > (my fingers automatically type "tar zxvf", and it will take a long time > to change that. What is bz2? j? That's too hard to remember.) >
Yes, for decode it should be able to spawn the right program by looking at the magic number. For encode, well, of course it needs to know. But yes, it's "j".
-hpa
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