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[Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>]

> as long as we validate the decompressed tarball regardless of
> compression then we don't have to worry about compression options.
> 
> the only question is what upstream provides and what we decide as a
> policy for preference of one archive type over another really,
> 
> right now bz2 is preferential to gz but we can always ask that
> developers choose the best compression choice they have
>   there is no need to code anything into sorcery other than some means
> of selecting which source which is on a per-spell basis so far.
> 
> Would a support routine in the sorcery library for selecting different
> archive formats for spellwriters be enough?


We need gpg verifying of decompressed tarball / file
http://www.sourcemage.org/issues/331

Mainly to verifying linux kernel sources and patches.

-- 
Ladislav Hagara