On 11.02.2012 11:14, Allan McRae wrote: > On 11/02/12 19:56, Florian Pritz wrote: >> On 11.02.2012 10:56, Allan McRae wrote: >>> From: Christian Hesse <[email protected]> >>> >>> Adds the ability to override the commands used to compressing >>> compiled and source packages. This is useful for those wanting >>> to use alternative implementations of the compression tools or >>> non-default compression options. >> >> There is really no need to do that as gzip already has the GZIP >> environment variable, xz has XZ_DEFAULTS and XZ_OPT, bzip2 has BZIP2 and >> BZIP. compress doesn't have something like that afaict. >> >> These variables can contain command line options which will be parsed >> before the real command line options. (Refer to the gzip, bzip2, xz >> manpages for more info) >> >> You can test this by adding 'export XZ_OPT=-h"' to package() and xz will >> then output the help msg to the package file. (bsdtar will also print an >> error, but that's expected) >> > > And how do you specify using pgzip that way?
Valid point I guess. -- Florian Pritz
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