[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add support for the xz archive format

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Wed May 13 02:23:19 EDT 2009


Am Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2009 08:21:11 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
> This simple patch adds support for the xz archive format to makepkg and
> repo- add.
> Xz can be used as source, package and package db file type.

I did not test this patch at all, but it should work. You'll need xz-utils and 
recompile libarchive.

I did not check acman itself, but it should support it out-of-the-box, right?

Next step will be adding support for xz in our devtools.

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