On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:04:15PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > On 06/11/13 8:54 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:15:24PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > >>On 05/11/13 7:44 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > >>>On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 10:41:35AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >>>>On 2013/11/05 03:04, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > >>>>>The patch adds lzip support to the ports framework. I tested > >>>>>"EXTRACT_SUFX = .tar.lz" with some ports and everything works without > >>>>>problems. > >>>> > >>>>In the past we've held off on diffs like this (e.g. for xz) until > >>>>it was actually used by a number of ports, I haven't really run into > >>>>it in the wild, do you know of any software distributed using lzip? > >>> > >>>Yes, some GNU and Savannah projects: > >>>rsync --list-only -r rsync://ftp.gnu.org/gnu | grep '\.lz$' > >>>rsync --list-only -r rsync://dl.sv.nongnu.org:/releases | grep '\.lz$' > >>> > >>>Graphicsmagick and imagemagick also have tarballs compressed with lzip. > >> > >>GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick provide XY compressed archives. > > > >They provide tarballs compressed with gz, bzip2, xz and lzip. > >ImageMagick also use 7zip and zip. Basically they use everything :) > > > >>The GNU project has standardized on using XZ. > > > >Do you have any document or link about that?. IIRC, GNU doesn't have > >preference by any file compressor, except obviously gzip. > > > >https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html : > >"Various compression formats are used on the server: .gz is gzip; .bz2 > >is bzip2; .xz is xz; .lz is lzip." > > > >Automake, GNU tar and texinfo support the lzip format. > > > ><rant>I guess the xz format is more used because this is the sucessor of > >the original lzma-utils (that was an horrible file format despite of the > >good compression algorithm).</rant> > > > >>Is there anything else? > > > >I've not found more projects using lzip. Anyway, the commits are done. > > The point wasn't whether projects provide more than one format or whether > there is overlap between lzip/xz. It's to point out projects that provide > say gzip and lzip archivers or only lzip archives. I don't have a problem > adding more formats, but there should be real purpose for doing so and I > haven't seen that so far.
I've not seen any project releasing only lzipped tarballs except zutils. My initial intention adding support for lzip was to have an alternative to xz 100% compatible with VAX for the patches and tarballs created and hosted directly by the OpenBSD porters in their servers. That is the reason for the adittional change to PATCH_CASES. The support for projects releasing tarballs compressed with lzip is just a side effect. Cheers. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
