[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add lz4 compression support to makepkg

[Alex Butler]

On 4 June 2018 at 08:48, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 31/05/18 23:31, Alex Butler wrote:
> > Adds opt-in lz4 compression of *pkg.tar files with makepkg.
> > This is nice to have as an option for very fast compression
> > and is already installed with libarchive.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Butler<alexheretic at gmail.com>
> > ---
>
> This patch is fine in principle.  But I think we need to figure out what
> to do with all the COMPRESS* options.  This will make seven of them and
> we have a request for another compression method too.  There has to be a
> more efficient way of overriding the range of compression options.
>
>
Perhaps. Though adding a new libarchive-supported compression option
currently costs 1 line of code, 1 line of conf & 1 line of docs. I'd say
that
was pretty good.

I also don't see that this patch particularly complicates any future
efforts
to improve the compression handling.