Bug 714765 - xz package uses tarball in xz format
Summary: xz package uses tarball in xz format
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xz
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-20 16:19 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-06-20 18:01:47 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2011-06-20 16:19:58 UTC 
Description of problem:

This is not helpful when bootstrapping, or attempting to build a changed version to debug xz when it's not working.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

current F15/rawhide version
Comment 1 Toshio Ernie Kuratomi 2011-06-20 17:38:32 UTC 
Interesting:

cat bzip2/sources gzip/sources
00b516f4704d4a7cb50a1d97e6e8e15b  bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
fc7be225884ae5324b44167ced89f50a  gzip-1.4.tar.xz

So perhaps this should be the general rule of thumb when packaging a compressor?
Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2011-06-20 18:01:47 UTC 
Good point. XZ uses bzip2 compressed tarballs now.
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