On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:19:17PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Just comparing the number of options that might affect the output
in gzip with xz should give a good idea of the possible complexity of
doing this for xz. Hopefully many of the more esoteric options (like
compressor filter chains) are
Julian Andres Klode wrote:
The problem is that future changes might change the format in ways that
can still be read by older xz versions, but are not byte identical with
them. This is one thing that makes it hard to have an --rsyncable option
in xz [1] and probably also makes it complicated
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:36:58AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Julian Andres Klode wrote:
The problem is that future changes might change the format in ways that
can still be read by older xz versions, but are not byte identical with
them. This is one thing that makes it hard to have an
Hi,
what is the status of this, now that both lzma and xz are in squeeze and
supported by dpkg? I'd like to get starting make use of it, and for
that, i'll need pristine-tar to support it in my git workflow.
Regards,
Daniel
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Daniel Baumann wrote:
what is the status of this, now that both lzma and xz are in squeeze and
supported by dpkg? I'd like to get starting make use of it, and for
that, i'll need pristine-tar to support it in my git workflow.
Adding support for a new compression format to pristine-tar is in
On 10/13/2010 06:19 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Adding support for a new compression format to pristine-tar is in general
a nontrivial problem
thank you for the explenation, much appreciated.
So I'd consider finding a large corupus of .xz files produced
in the wild to be a good first step also.
Package: pristine-tar
Version: 0.17
Severity: wishlist
According to manual page:
LIMITATIONS
Only .tar, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 files are currently supported.
SUGGESTION
Please consider adding LZMA support that is very good for big archive
tarballs.
-- System Information:
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