pingcap / pingcap/tiup

Support different compression format of packages

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Go
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Description

Feature Request

Describe the feature you'd like:

tiup cluster patch now only accepts a .tar.gz archive. I would like it could accept something like .tar.lz4, .tar.zstd or just .tar.

Why the featue is needed:

Gzip is an obsolete compression algorithm. Waiting for gzipping my binary is painful...
It is much slower than new competitors like lz4 and zstd. And sometimes I don't care about the network bandwidth, so a vanilla.tar is good to me.

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Research direction

Start at the tiup cluster patch command and trace where package archives are validated and extracted. Check how .tar.gz is handled, then define completion as accepting .tar.lz4, .tar.zstd, and uncompressed .tar archives with appropriate coverage for each format.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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