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

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> 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.

Applied, thanks. We still have some concerns with the delta stuff but
no need to hold this work up.

-Dan