From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 1 01:52:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147CE106566B for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 01:52:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 516E98FC30 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 01:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 26129 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2010 01:45:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.phoenix) (218.215.161.136) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 1 Jan 2010 01:45:06 -0000 Received: by smtp.phoenix (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 57B31171B8; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:52:44 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:52:44 +1100 From: andrew clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100101015244.GA33552@ozzmosis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: pkgtools and xz compressor X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:52:49 -0000 Hi, I notice FreeBSD 7.2's pkg_add, pkg_create, etc don't have support for the xz compressor, evidently due to lack of support for the xz format in bsdtar. Does bsdtar support xz in FreeBSD 8.0? Failing that, is xz support for the pkgtools something being looked at in future? xz's compression ratios tend to be much better than bzip2's, eg. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 27360899 2009-12-05 03:20 samba-3.0.37,1.tbz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16672892 2010-01-01 12:15 samba-3.0.37,1.tar.xz Happy new year to FreeBSD users worldwide! Regards Andrew