On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:15:24PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > On 05/11/13 7:44 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 10:41:35AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >>On 2013/11/05 03:04, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > >>>The patch adds lzip support to the ports framework. I tested > >>>"EXTRACT_SUFX = .tar.lz" with some ports and everything works without > >>>problems. > >> > >>In the past we've held off on diffs like this (e.g. for xz) until > >>it was actually used by a number of ports, I haven't really run into > >>it in the wild, do you know of any software distributed using lzip? > > > >Yes, some GNU and Savannah projects: > >rsync --list-only -r rsync://ftp.gnu.org/gnu | grep '\.lz$' > >rsync --list-only -r rsync://dl.sv.nongnu.org:/releases | grep '\.lz$' > > > >Graphicsmagick and imagemagick also have tarballs compressed with lzip. > > GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick provide XY compressed archives.
They provide tarballs compressed with gz, bzip2, xz and lzip. ImageMagick also use 7zip and zip. Basically they use everything :) > The GNU project has standardized on using XZ. Do you have any document or link about that?. IIRC, GNU doesn't have preference by any file compressor, except obviously gzip. https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html : "Various compression formats are used on the server: .gz is gzip; .bz2 is bzip2; .xz is xz; .lz is lzip." Automake, GNU tar and texinfo support the lzip format. <rant>I guess the xz format is more used because this is the sucessor of the original lzma-utils (that was an horrible file format despite of the good compression algorithm).</rant> > Is there anything else? I've not found more projects using lzip. Anyway, the commits are done. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
