On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 15:15 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
Where did this go?
Do we have any additional opinions regarding LZMA? Personally, I think LZMA is great, and the new licensing (LGPL?) opens a lot of doors. Personally, I can't wait to see squashfs-lzma to pick up speed.
I agree with Dan though - libarchive isn't just a dep of pacman. We also ship bsdtar, which I use quite often.
I think having an LZMA-enabled version of libarchive/bsdtar would fix this bug also: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12712 At this moment, rpmextract can't extract RPM files that use LZMA compression. To solve the above bug partially, I'm thinking about rewriting file-roller to use bsdtar for extracting compressed cpio files. Without LZMA support in bsdtar, this will still fail for SuSE's RPM files though.