On 11/02/12 19:56, Florian Pritz wrote:
On 11.02.2012 10:56, Allan McRae wrote:
From: Christian Hesse
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?