[Thincrust-devel] Re: Auto-discard notification

[Bryan Kearney]

thincrust-devel-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
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> Subject:
> Re: [Thincrust-devel] issues with zip packaging for appliances
> From:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:03:27 +0000
> To:
> Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com>
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> To:
> Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com>
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> Thincrust tooling devel list <thincrust-devel at redhat.com>
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> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:44:54AM +0100, Alan Pevec wrote:
>> Perry Myers wrote:
>>> So the fundamental question here is... what packaging format can we use 
>>> that will have good compression, is natively supported on a wide variety 
>>> of platforms (Unix, Windows, Linux) and will hold raw images that are 
>>> fairly large. 
>> 7-zip.org looks promising but again that's not installed on windoze by 
>> default
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> Not installed in many Linux either.
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> Daniel

I have 7zip, but I had to get it to consume some vmware images. If we 
are thinking a default packaging format, would tar.bz be acceptable to 
most folks? I think that would be fine on most platforms.

-- bk