29 May
2010
29 May
'10
11:01 p.m.
On 30/05/10 05:44, Nezmer wrote:
If "file -bizL" does not return a supported type. Check if the dist file is recognized by bsdtar and if yes extract from it.
Signed-off-by: Nezmer<git@nezmer.info> ---
bsdtar can recognize many containers and compression algorithms.
lzma is the best compression the GNU guys are using in their dist files.
% file -bizL wget-1.12.tar.lzma application/octet-stream; charset=binary
"file" output is not really useful.
Using lzma can reduce the size of source packages by a good margin.
Is .lzma used by anyone these days? I have seen no GNU projects using it in recent times given has .xz completely taken over as is its successor. There is no point in doing this for a dead format. Allan