On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:45:21PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include <hallo.h>
* Lars Wirzenius [Wed, Feb 15 2006, 10:42:02AM]:
(Once we use .tar.bz2, the sizes will be even smaller.)
I cannot remember a clear consens from the "Size matters" thread, and
IMO we should go for 7zip at least for source packages.
There are a lot of problems with 7zip.
They continue to fix various segfault bugs.
It is rather windows-centric in its approach in many ways.
They've recently added support for symlinks and file permission bits,
and still don't support storing of uid/gid. You can probably pretty
much forget storage of hard links and sparse files.
I wouldn't be surprised to find various security bugs that have been
long-since fixed in tar, such as unpacking files with names such as
../../../etc/passwd or whatnot.
You may say that some of these don't matter for source archives. That
is true to a certain extent, but security does matter there still.