From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:41:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060922174137.GA29929@linuxtv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4514103D.8010303@zytor.com>
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:33:01AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
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.)
Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 17:42 UTC|newest]
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2006-09-21 20:32 Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? Dax Kelson
[not found] ` <20060921204250 .GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
2006-09-21 20:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-21 21:40 ` Dax Kelson
2006-09-22 14:00 ` Lennart Sorensen
[not found] ` <20060921171747.9ae2b42e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 21:17 ` Sean
2006-09-21 21:41 ` Dax Kelson
2006-09-21 21:50 ` Bob Copeland
[not found] ` <20060921175717.272c58ee.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 21:57 ` Sean
2006-09-21 22:00 ` David Lang
2006-09-21 22:24 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-21 22:16 ` David Lang
2006-09-21 22:40 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-21 22:34 ` David Lang
[not found] ` <20060921193823.ec49d446.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 23:38 ` Sean
[not found] ` <Pin e.LNX.4.63.0609211455570.17238@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
2006-09-21 22:25 ` Sean
[not found] ` <20060921182554.23044ca3.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 22:20 ` David Lang
2006-09-21 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 14:00 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-22 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 16:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-22 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 17:41 ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
2006-09-22 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 18:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-09-22 18:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-25 11:51 ` Paulo Marques
2006-09-25 15:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-02 3:35 Drew Scott Daniels
2006-10-02 3:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-10-02 3:35 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <Pi ne.LNX.4.63.0610012205280.28534@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
2006-10-02 5:11 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 5:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-02 15:16 ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-02 15:48 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 20:20 ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-02 20:12 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 20:35 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <2006 1002203527.GA585@1wt.eu>
2006-10-02 21:49 ` Sean
[not found] ` <20061002174938.bb82027d.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-10-02 21:42 ` David Lang
2006-10-03 2:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-03 10:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-03 18:24 ` Phillip Susi
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