Distributing lzip compressed tarballs

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 16, 2009, Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio_diaz at ya.com> wrote:

> Did you think about distributing lzip compressed tarballs (in addition 
> to tar.bz2)?

I hadn't.  Thanks for the suggestion.

I'll look into doing that for upcoming releases, such as 2.6.29.2, and
then I'll retrofit it to earlier releases.

> Lzipped tarballs of linux-2.6.XX-libre are about 9MB (17%) smaller than 
> bzip2ed ones.

Wow!  That's a lot!  I had no idea.  Thanks for letting me know.

>> You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi

> Of course all my projects are released as lzip compressed tarballs!

:-)

Kind regards,

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