Semi-Official Fedora 18 downloadable cloud images

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:51:14PM -0500, Andy Grimm wrote:
> Just a quick data point here:  I downloaded the raw.xz onto a CentOS 6
> system, and ran unxz on it.  It seems the version of xz there does not
> preserve the file's sparseness.  Fedora 17 and 18 have new enough xz
> that they work fine, but I wonder if it would be worth encapsulating
> the sparse file inside tar (i.e., make a tar.xz file) to work around
> this for older systems.  I'm not sure how much people care, but it's a
> simple change.

Sure, I'll go ahead and do that. It'll take a little bit, because it takes
my system a very long time to xz the file. :)

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