From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 12 07:36:01 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 C30471065670 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:36:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from monday.kientzle.com (kientzle.com [66.166.149.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE2C8FC15 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from root@localhost) by monday.kientzle.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) id o0C7CRRt096676; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:12:27 GMT (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from dark.x.kientzle.com (fw2.kientzle.com [10.123.1.2]) by kientzle.com with SMTP id 3ywm9y2bucfebbv74fq9cu7h66; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:12:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4B4C20F9.1070809@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:12:57 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090601 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "b. f." References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: andrew clarke , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:36:02 -0000 b. f. wrote: >> 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? If you have the xz port installed, yes. If you have liblzma installed, you can even recompile libarchive with native xz support by following the comments in lib/libarchive/Makefile. >>Failing that, is >> xz support for the pkgtools something being looked at in future? Yes, xz support is being looked at. Lzma-family compression has been of interest for some time but there have been a number of technical issues. The "xz" format seems to address those but the software is still in beta. Once a final production version of the xz software is available, I expect it to be imported into FreeBSD-CURRENT fairly quickly. Cheers, Tim