Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:35:00 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds |
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Rob Landley wrote: > > Actually, from what I've seen the main reason lzma doesn't get used for > tarballs a lot is that whoever originally created it didn't include a > fingerprint. You can go "file tar.gz" or "file tar.bz2" and it can figure > out by looking at the contents of the file what it _is_, but last I checked > there's no obvious way to tell an lzma file from the output of /dev/urandom. > This causes all sorts of small but annoying problems, and discourages its use > a bit... >
Both 7zip and LZMA-Utils have serious file format problems. The author of LZMA-Utils is working on a new format, which is likely to be widely adopted once it materializes.
-hpa
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