On 11/02/12 19:56, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 11.02.2012 10:56, Allan McRae wrote: >> From: Christian Hesse <[email protected]> >> >> Adds the ability to override the commands used to compressing >> compiled and source packages. This is useful for those wanting >> to use alternative implementations of the compression tools or >> non-default compression options. > > There is really no need to do that as gzip already has the GZIP > environment variable, xz has XZ_DEFAULTS and XZ_OPT, bzip2 has BZIP2 and > BZIP. compress doesn't have something like that afaict. > > These variables can contain command line options which will be parsed > before the real command line options. (Refer to the gzip, bzip2, xz > manpages for more info) > > You can test this by adding 'export XZ_OPT=-h"' to package() and xz will > then output the help msg to the package file. (bsdtar will also print an > error, but that's expected) >
And how do you specify using pgzip that way?
