> On 5 Apr 2014, at 06:02 pm, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 20:39:26 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> Since the MacPorts build system now accommodates adding third-party >> software into the build, if pbzip2 works reliably, it might be nice >> to include it with MacPorts and use it at least for compression and >> decompression of the archives, if not also for bzip2 distfiles and >> patchfiles. > > Fedora is currently in the progress of switching to lbzip2. I don't > know how if this implementation is related to pbzip2, but the goals > sound similar. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/lbzip2 > > We do not have a port for it yet, though.
Reading the web site, they claim lbzip2 can handle unzipping any bz2 file in parallel, unlike pbzip2. This seems like a distinct advantage, and given it seems well maintained, i think makes it a much better replacement possibility. > > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
