Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:41:09 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: bf2006a@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? Message-ID: <9bbcef730811251141w63ad793as6efac3e7156bc2ef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <917783.1650.qm@web39102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <917783.1650.qm@web39102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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2008/11/25 bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com>: >> How useful would LZMA be without supporting the .7z file format? >> Probably not at all, since there isn't a gzip-like file format or >> wrapper that supports LZMA. > > ?? Have you looked at this code? Yes, there is: there is an "LZMA > compressed file format" and the 7z file format, both of which support > LZMA. The former format has been widely adopted by people who distribute > lzma-compressed tarballs, especially GNU-related projects that use the > lzmautils port. Some projects, like GNU coreutils, no longer distribute > the latest versions of their software in bzip2-compressed tarballs. That's interesting - I've never seen an .lzma file "in the wild". But there they are: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ [ ] coreutils-6.12.tar.gz 01-Jun-2008 05:03 8.6M [ ] coreutils-6.12.tar.lzma 01-Jun-2008 05:04 3.6M And there's a compressor in ports: archivers/lzma
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