Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 01:21:48 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Cc: mm@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: liblzma and xz to FreeBSD base Message-ID: <AANLkTim3qrxTGOzAso2baRRc-TmBE8v-UEjnRUBUotkE@mail.gmail.com>
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Martin Matuska wrote: > Dear fellow devleopers, > > I would like to propose an import of liblzma and the utilities xz, xzdec > and lzmainfo to base (vendor -> contrib). > As I was informed, libarchive is already lzma-ready, some of our > existing code could take advantage of liblzma instantly. > > The source code is imported from: > http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-4.999.9beta.tar.gz > > All GPLv2, LGPLv2.1 and GPLv3 parts are stripped from the code (they > cover only the build system and unimportant scripts). > liblzma, xz, xzdec, lzmainfo are public domain licensed. > > A working patchset against HEAD (includes modified lesspipe.sh): > http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/patches/xz/ > > The only patched file is src/common/bswap.h, with the patch from the > archivers/xz port. > > Comments and suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks, > mm This would be great; we've been waiting for it for some time. If you could also coordinate with Alexander Rybalko <ray at dlink.ua>, who described his module for kernel lzma support in Feb.: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-February/030774.html (and follow-ups on -hackers Feb.-Mar.) to help him incorporate his work, that would be appreciated. b.
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