On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > xz gives better compression results than bzip/gz but is often slower. > Using parallel compression mitigates this somewhat and is particularly > useful for the SDK.
I have proposed another tool called pxz back in Sept last year http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-September/110971.html although pixz seems to be well maintained and active, would be nice to know what do people mostly use. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/pixz/pixz_1.0.6.bb > b/meta/recipes-support/pixz/pixz_1.0.6.bb > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..e6e4ac2 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/meta/recipes-support/pixz/pixz_1.0.6.bb > @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ > +SUMMARY = "Parallel, indexed xz compressor" > + > +DEPENDS = "xz libarchive" > + > +SRC_URI = > "https://github.com/vasi/pixz/releases/download/v${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz"; > +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "f6dc5909c9a31b192f69aa397ae8df48" > +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = > "02c50746b134fa1b1aae41fcc314d7c6f1919b3d48bcdea01bf11769f83f72e8" > + > +LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause" > +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=5cf6d164086105f1512ccb81bfff1926" > + > +inherit autotools > + > +BBCLASSEXTEND = "native" > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
