Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] libmakepkg: Add lzip ext support

On 1/26/19 7:46 PM, Chloe Kudryavtsev wrote:

lzip is a lossless data compressor designed to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose compressed format. - add .lz (lzip) support to libmakepkg/util/compress.sh:compress_as - add COMPRESSLZ to makepkg.conf.in - document COMPRESSLZ Signed-off-by: Chloe Kudryavtsev <toast@toastin.space> Looks like libarchive does support lzip even though it isn't one of the compression options bsdtar can use on the command line. I suppose this makes sense as it is just another lzma implementation.

Any particular benefit of this method over the other ones we support, by the way? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User