Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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