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

[Eli Schwartz]

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 at 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

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