Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

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Michael Tokarev wrote:

Well, I don't see any shell code here, in /usr/bin/lzma as in istalled from
debian version 4.43-2.

But note that this lzma utility does not have any 'magic number' and does
no crc checks.

Ah, right, that's a total killer.

On the site it's said lzma(sdk) is under rewrite to support
new format with magic number and crc checks...

That is an absolute must, IMO.  I would use the gzip format as a base.

	-hpa

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