On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:28:04PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > On 06/11/13 9:25 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > >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. > > XZ archives are fine with VAX. It's just getting a small number of upstream > projects to not use stupid compression settings when initially creating the > archives; the settings being used are dumb even when not taking VAX into > consideration. There is zero necessity for LZIP for OpenBSD developers > creating their own archives. Just don't crank the knobs to their maximum > compression setting so to speak for no reason.
I use "-9" for everything compressed with xz, lzip or other modern compression formats. This isn't a stupid setting! :) -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
