Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Sep 22 2006 - 12:33:40 EST


Jan Engelhardt wrote:
widely used until there is an "lzip" which does the same thing. I actually started the work of adding LZMA support to gzip, but then realized it would be better if a new encapsulation format with proper 64-bit support everywhere was created.
It doesn't handle streaming?

So you can't do: tar c dirname | 7zip dirname.tar.7z ?

man 7z [slightly changed for reasonability]:

-si
Read data from StdIn (eg: tar -c directory | 7z a -si directory.tar.7z)


Yes, but you can't make it write to an unseekable stdout.

-hpa
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