Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Sep 22 2006 - 14:10:17 EST


Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

It seems the "lzma" program from LZMA Utils can:

http://tukaani.org/lzma/
"Very similar command line interface than what gzip and bzip2 have."

(Debian sid has this in the "lzma" package.)


Yes, it can. If that's the way things go then I don't mind it, however, my biggest problem with lzma utils is that the command line parsing is done in a shell script wrapper.

Maybe I'll start using it anyway...

-hpa

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