Semi-Official Fedora 18 downloadable cloud images

[Andy Grimm]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 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. :)

Just tried one of the new files to make sure it works.  Much better, thanks!

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