yum-presto not on by default
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Wed Sep 23 23:17:35 UTC 2009
Andre Robatino (andre at bwh.harvard.edu) said:
> If I understand correctly what the problem is - that successfully
> xz-uncompressing a file requires being on the same endian arch as the
> one it was compressed on - that's just wrong. It shouldn't be
> platform-dependent at all.
That is not the issue. There are two issues:
- Compressing a file on different arches, while it produces output
that any arch can decompress, does produce *different* output.
- Compression of xz is not fast.
Bill
More information about the devel
mailing list