From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 11 14:33:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B630106566C; Tue, 11 May 2010 14:33:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@dlink.ua) Received: from dlink.ua (smtp.dlink.ua [193.138.187.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A27668FC0A; Tue, 11 May 2010 14:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw ([192.168.10.10] helo=terran) by dlink.ua with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OBq4k-00069o-09; Tue, 11 May 2010 17:04:46 +0300 Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:10:11 +0300 From: Alexandr Rybalko To: bf1783@gmail.com Message-Id: <20100511171011.796eb8c7.ray@dlink.ua> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: D-Link X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "b. f." , mm@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: liblzma and xz to FreeBSD base X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:33:45 -0000 On Sun, 9 May 2010 01:21:48 +0000 "b. f." 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 , 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 aka Alex RAY