On 30/05/10 05:44, Nezmer wrote:
If "file -bizL" does not return a supported type. Check if the dist file
is recognized by bsdtar and if yes extract from it.
Signed-off-by: Nezmer<[email protected]>
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bsdtar can recognize many containers and compression algorithms.
lzma is the best compression the GNU guys are using in their dist files.
% file -bizL wget-1.12.tar.lzma
application/octet-stream; charset=binary
"file" output is not really useful.
Using lzma can reduce the size of source packages by a good margin.
Is .lzma used by anyone these days? I have seen no GNU projects using
it in recent times given has .xz completely taken over as is its
successor. There is no point in doing this for a dead format.
Allan
