Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 20:54:42 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Martin Matuska <mm@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: liblzma and xz to FreeBSD base Message-ID: <4BE38F02.1000802@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4BE31D84.3040903@FreeBSD.org> References: <4BE31D84.3040903@FreeBSD.org>
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This has already been discussed and the consensus was to go ahead with it. I was going to do it myself, but what you have here looks much more complete than what I have locally right now. Go for it. Cheers, Tim 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > >
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