From: Simon Josefsson via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ISO image: to xz or not to xz?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 22:41:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im462lc9.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s52rwna.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?Court\=E8s\?\= \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?\=22's\?\= message of "Wed, 28 Apr 2021 22:18:01 +0200")
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Should we distribute the installation ISO without xz compression?
Yes. I've always found that annoying with Guix, because it adds one
more step to the download and PGP verification process. All of Debian,
Ubuntu, NixOS, etc distribute plain ISO's.
/Simon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-28 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-28 20:18 ISO image: to xz or not to xz? Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-28 20:39 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-28 20:41 ` Simon Josefsson via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2021-05-02 21:16 ` [PATCH] maint: Do not xz-compress ISO images Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-03 0:15 ` [bug#48173] " Julien Lepiller
2021-05-03 7:50 ` François
2021-05-03 15:39 ` bug#48173: " Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-03 16:35 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-05-04 3:35 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-05-03 15:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-28 21:16 ` ISO image: to xz or not to xz? Christopher Baines
2021-04-28 21:18 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-03 16:47 ` Alexandre Oliva
2021-05-03 17:07 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-03 17:30 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-05-03 19:12 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-05-03 19:57 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-05-03 17:41 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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