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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>,
	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 22:19:24 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4514292C.5000309@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451426C9.9040002@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Well, I don't see any shell code here, in /usr/bin/lzma as in istalled from
debian version 4.43-2.

But note that this lzma utility does not have any 'magic number' and does
no crc checks.  On the site it's said lzma(sdk) is under rewrite to support
new format with magic number and crc checks...

After reading this thread I wanted to teach GNU tar to automatically recognize
..tar.lzma archives - and failed, eactly because of the lack of magic number
at the start of a file...

/mjt

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-22 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2006-09-22 18:09             ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 18:19               ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
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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