On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:08:53AM -0600, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> LZMA is now LGPL, so linking against it is OK wrt libarchive's BSD
> license. So it isn't implemented at all in libarchive, only linked to
> and treated just like gzip and bz2 currently are.

Exactly.

> If you compile a package of this prerelease, I would be happy to try
> it out on my system.

One thing you should note is that the lzma format created by tar -c
--lzma -f is different from what tar -cf && lzma creates. (Yet another
GNU "feature", heh.)

During development I tested the later format, and the original patch
refused to work with the previous one, but Tim may have changed it since
then.

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