Oh, it's used to pass the compression level though pax to gzip. That's explain it. Maybe we should switch to --use-compress-program="nbgzip -LEVEL"???

Cheers

On 16/02/23 06:28, Martin Husemann wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 06:18:54AM +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
I saw this too. I think the way we select the gzip compression level (using
the GZIP environment variable) is now deprecated for some reason.

I have not seen it anywhere, but I see we set GZIP=-9n for pax -z
in src/distrib/sets/maketars.

Martin

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