[Releasing] Tarball distribution issue for the important releases

[marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com]

On 03/09/2012 07:46, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On segunda-feira, 3 de setembro de 2012 12.00.35, jan-arve.saether at nokia.com
> wrote:
>> Hausmann Simon (Nokia-MP/Oslo) wrote on 2012-09-01:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I don't know the precise answer to your question but I am confident
>>> that a solution exists in OBS. Quoting from
>>> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tutorial :
>>>
>>> "To add files via the command line, just cd into the new directory,
>>> copy the relevant files (typically a .tar.xz and support files)."
>>>
>>> I believe Fedora supports xz, too.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>
>> Is there any reason to create .7z packages if we have .xz packages
>> available? The latest version of 7-zip can already uncompress .xz files.
>
> .7z is even smaller than .tar.xz., somehow.

And .7z is normally a Windows package, so complementary to the .zip 
package, and should have Windows EOLs.

While .tar.xz is normally a Unix package, complementary to the .tar.gz 
package, and should have Unix EOLs.

-- 
.marius