-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-1056 2009-01-27 00:37:49 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : pbzip2 Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.0.5 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.compression.ca/pbzip2/ Summary : Parallel implementation of bzip2 Description : PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: New upstream package with following enhancements: * Now properly complains about trying to read or write compressed data to terminal, and exits * Updated Makefile to force deletion when cleaning * Added support to use pbzip2 with tar (--use-compress-prog=pbzip2). * Added support for all remaining bzip2 command line options so pbzip2 can be used as a drop-in replacement for bzip2. * Fixed bug that would cause pbzip2 to crash if detection of the number of processors failed. * Now prevents uclibc from being exposed to its lack of a getloadavg function. * Added support for compression using stdin and pipes! Thanks to Ivan Voras for supplying the patch to enable this feature. * Added support for decompression using stdin and pipes but currently limited to only a single thread * Added support for testing bzip2 files using stdin and pipes * Added support to directly decompress files without using threads when files are small or the system only has 1 CPU. This mode is also used if the .bz2 file contains only 1 bzip2 stream. * Added support to compress 0 byte files like bzip2 * Added support for pbzcat symlink to automatically specify decompression mode to stdout, just like bzcat * Increased max supported path and filename from 255 to 2048 characters * Updated RPM spec to support SUSE Linux * Updated help display to show how many CPUs autodetect has found -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jan 8 2009 Jeff Gilchrist <pbz...@compression.ca> - 1.0.5-1 - Release 1.0.5 * Sun Dec 21 2008 Jeff Gilchrist <pbz...@compression.ca> - 1.0.4-1 - Release 1.0.4 * Fri Oct 31 2008 Jeff Gilchrist <pbz...@compression.ca> - 1.0.3-1 - Release 1.0.3 - Added support for SUSE RPM build - Added symlink for pbzcat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pbzip2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce