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Compress binary tarballs using xz #240

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edolstra opened this issue Apr 11, 2014 · 2 comments
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Compress binary tarballs using xz #240

edolstra opened this issue Apr 11, 2014 · 2 comments
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Only problem is that some systems (OS X?) might not have xz.
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Default seems to have been .xz for a while now, at least on Linux?

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edolstra commented May 1, 2017

This refers to the binary tarballs of Nix releases, which are still in .tar.bz2 format: https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.11.9/

And OS X still has no xz by default.

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