[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pacman-4.1

[Christian Hesse]

Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde at gmail.com> on Fri, 2013/04/05 08:23:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On 05/04/13 07:42, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Pacman-4.1.0 is released and in the [testing] repos.  See my blog [1]
> >>> for details of what is new in this release.
> >>>
> >> With this commit[1], can we assume that install script should now be
> >> written in bash?
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pacman&id=b41b136a374fc85c559e06120b5dc82cd4d5aa28
> >>
> >
> > What did you think it was written in previously?  We have always used
> > bashisms.
> >
> > Allan
> >
> 
> I saw in the makepkg.conf that there are new COMPRESS vars. Any of
> these support parallel compression (thread level) like 7zip? And if
> yes, how can I enable them?

Yes, sure. ;)
I have:

COMPRESSGZ=(pigz -c -f -n)
COMPRESSBZ2=(pbzip2 -c -f)
COMPRESSXZ=(xz -T0 -c -z)

This requires these to be installed:

pigz 2.3-1
pbzip2 1.1.8-1
xz-git 5.1.2alpha.22.g5ea900c-1

xz-git is from AUR and supports parallel compression.
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