Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:26:14 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is xz ? Message-ID: <4E0F0056.1070501@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <20110702083826.c979afa8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4E0EB955.7090308@gmail.com> <20110702083826.c979afa8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 02/07/2011 07:38, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5 >> checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at >> the end stand for ? It looks like it stands for some kind of >> compression (gzip/bzip2/some new format), but I can't figure out >> exactly which one. > > It's xz compression, archivers/xz from ports, which is ...but before you install it you may find it is part of the base system. %pkg_info -Ix xz pkg_info: no packages match pattern(s) %which xz /usr/bin/xz I'm on 8.1-R Chris
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