Bug 8537 - [spec] rpm payload compression
: [spec] rpm payload compression
: NEW
: Moblin Compliance Tools
Moblin Compliance Specification
: unspecified
: Netbook Moblin Linux
: Undecided normal
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Reported: 2009-12-08 15:38 PST by
Modified: 2009-12-08 16:07 PST (History)


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Description From 2009-12-08 15:38:49 PST
LSB 4.0 allows gzip rpm payload compression only. At the same time bz2 and lzma
are widespread nowadays. 

We have to decide which rpm payload compressions have to be supported by
compliant distributions/can be used be compliant applications and reflect the
decision in Moblin specification/documentation/package creator.
------- Comment #1 From 2009-12-08 16:07:49 PST -------
We'll need to figure out which ones are widely enough actually used that they
aren't going to cause compatibility problems, and then allow them.  We did try
to add bz2 to LSB but it got turned down, but that's kind of irrelevant to this
question.  I think lzma may be the outlier, but only a survey will really
answer this.