Hi,
CRUX 2.6 will ship with XZ (http://tukaani.org/xz/) in core.
That package implements the XZ compression algorithm, which is the
successor to LZMA. I believe that LZMA isn't in use in the free software
world anymore, so I will only talk about XZ here.
To extract an xz'ed tarball, you can do as
Tilman Sauerbeck [2009-06-14 13:23]:
a) link to liblzma (XZ!) too. This will increase the size of our pkgadd
binary since now a few more object files from liblzma.a will be
included.
Some numbers:
$ size pkgadd-without-xz
textdata bss dec hex filename
1369326
