From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Kenton Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 12:14:22 -0500 Subject: [Buildroot] What would it take to add LZIP support for package downloads? Message-ID: <55EF176E.4050001@ou.edu> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net I'm trying to set up a package for ddrescue https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ and it's only available compressed with lzip (tar.lz) http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html A manual trial run seems to indicate that it's not a supported format for downloaded packages >>> ddrescue 1.19 Extracting /ssd/bcdist/buildroot-2015.05/dl/ddrescue-1.19.tar.lz | tar --strip-components=1 -C /ssd/bcdist/buildroot-2015.05/output/build/ddrescue-1.19 -xf - /bin/bash: /ssd/bcdist/buildroot-2015.05/dl/ddrescue-1.19.tar.lz: Permission denied tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors So, what would it take to add lzip support for downloaded packages? Easy or Oh My? Steve Kenton