On 09/23/2009 07:17 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Andre Robatino (andre(a)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.
Ah, OK. But hasn't openSUSE been using xz in their deltarpms since 11.0
(over a year ago)? What are they doing differently so they aren't affected?