From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751868Ab0BMKVm (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:21:42 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15040 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751396Ab0BMKVk (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:21:40 -0500 Message-ID: <4B767C67.7060701@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:18:15 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Richter CC: Jean Delvare , Willy Tarreau , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org, users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100212150137.648dca7c@hyperion.delvare> <4B75A5DC.3060803@kernel.org> <20100212202357.6363d5af@hyperion.delvare> <20100212230702.GA10266@1wt.eu> <20100213091748.276821e1@hyperion.delvare> <4B767810.5020707@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4B767810.5020707@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/13/2010 11:59 AM, Stefan Richter wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > >> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:07:02 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> >>> Gzip is well >>> defined as a standard, it's even described in an RFC and is present >>> on almost any system (unix or not) now. Any student who wants to take >>> a look at the kernel will have access to gunzip, even from an old >>> Solaris 8 workstation or a Windows XP desktop PC. >>> >> Really? I have a Windows XP laptop at hand and it can't read .gz files. >> If I ask it to try, it tells me I should install WinZip. I also seem to >> recall that I had to install GNU gzip myself back when I was working on >> a Solaris workstation (but I might remember badly.) >> > As a side note: 7zip, a very popular and Free archiving tool for > Windows, supports xz since its version 9 which is currently available as > a beta. So, WRT the need to get an extra unarchiver, xz is just as > accessible to Windows users as gz is. > Can you even unpack a kernel tree on Windows? There are some files (e.g. net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_{ecn,ECN}.c) which conflict on a case-preserving filesystem. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.