It's been a while since I've had contact with Gentoo or Sabayon. And I'm wondering if either have started using xz for package compression yet. If so, what extension is used?

Thank you!
Shingoshi

Edit: Do I need to start a new thread to ask a question like this?

by jove, you did start a new thread!

Well, portage's source tarballs are gunzip'd, so they'd be .tar.gz extension, and Sabayon's binary packages are tarballs which are bzip-2'd, so they'd be .tbz2

That's what we use for package compressions, hope it helps!

~xlnagla

Thanks for answering this. It is obvious the situation remains the same as before. The interest was for building packages for another distribution using Gentoo as my build system. But the tbz2 extension doesn't allow that to be possible. And I'm guessing that the user is still not allowed to set their own package extension?

Shingoshi

well, not many other distrobutions are source-based, so that will be an interesting challenge - believe it or not, there are tools on gentoo available for mastering debs and rpms if that is what you're going for - it just takes a fairly advanced user to be able to set them up. I just outlined how we compress our own packages. If you're rolling packages for an entirely different system then you'd not be using our internal packaging systems for this other distrobution - otherwise it would be gentoo/sabayon itself anyway! So yes, we support a ton of non-standard package managers and compressions if you want to turn a gentoo box into a build server, but it will take effort.

~xlnagla

I was only interested in using .tlz/lzma (now .txz/xz) as my package extension. So I simply want to direct the install to DESTDIR, and then use makepkg to compress to .txz. I think that should have been simple enough. I'm sure that if I worked at it, I could easily do it.

Thank you,
Shingoshi

lzma support is planned for entropy soon