Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression | Date | Mon, 22 May 2006 11:58:50 -0700 (PDT) |
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Followup to: <200605212003.32063.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> By author: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Somebody needs to make lzma userspace tools (like p7zip) faster, not crash, > and behave like a regular UNIX program. Then we need a patch to GNU tar to > emerge, and for it to persist for at least 4 years. Then maybe people will > adopt this format.. >
The patch to GNU tar isn't necessary. If the "not crash, and behave like a regular UNIX program" can be satisfied, I'd be happy to support 7zip/lzma on kernel.org. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell:
a) right now the standard encapsulation format for LZMA is 7zip, which only comes in the form of hideously ugly code. lzma-tools are cleaner, but incompatible.
b) Even lzma-tools relies on a shell script to behave like a Unix program.
Personally, I would like to suggest adding LZMA capability to gzip. The gzip format already has support for multiple compression formats.
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