Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:10:11 +0300 From: Alexandr Rybalko <ray@dlink.ua> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>, mm@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: liblzma and xz to FreeBSD base Message-ID: <20100511171011.796eb8c7.ray@dlink.ua> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim3qrxTGOzAso2baRRc-TmBE8v-UEjnRUBUotkE@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTim3qrxTGOzAso2baRRc-TmBE8v-UEjnRUBUotkE@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 9 May 2010 01:21:48 +0000 "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, in my work lzma lib can help only for mkulzma utility. geom_ulzma use internal lzma, because kernel don`t have lzma lzma encoder for compressing kernel for CFE loader use old version of lzma (archivers/lzma PORTVERSION= 4.17) But I would be very happy, when supported archive types in tar and libarchive maybe customized with options like WITHOUT_BZ2, WITHOUT_LZMA ... . -- Alexandr Rybalko <ray@dlink.ua> aka Alex RAY <ray@ddteam.net>
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