[Lunar-commits] lzma: New packer with best compression and depacking speed.

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

commit 32b96557670f08d8bd0a083bcbc2d2642d624f9d
Author: Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at lunar-linux.org>
Date:   Fri Feb 1 15:14:47 2008 +0100

    lzma: New packer with best compression and depacking speed.
    Depending on directory size and content lzma can squeeze up to 15% more than bzip2.
    Decompression speed is almost equal to gzip. However compression time is higher than bzip2.
    But who cares if file is compressed once and decompressed many times. Like in file distribution.
    LZMA is going to be third packer currently in use on Linux/*nix platform after gzip and bzip2 by taking best features of these both.
    LZMA will be used in future rpm format files by replacing gzip and bzip2 mainly because of its depacking speed and high compression.
    LZMA is the same compression algorithm *.7z packers use but *.7z format stores some additional data which make them incompatibile
    with raw LZMA stream from Linux tools.
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diff --git a/archive/lzma/DETAILS b/archive/lzma/DETAILS
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+       MODULE=lzma
+      VERSION=4.32.5
+       SOURCE=lzma-$VERSION.tar.gz
+SOURCE_URL[0]=http://tukaani.org/lzma/
+   SOURCE_VFY=sha1:5b8b5e399c1b2bbb89bc455b860d5c2cfb87ab31
+     WEB_SITE=http://tukaani.org/lzma/
+      ENTERED=20080129
+      UPDATED=20080201
+        SHORT="Utils for LZMA archive format"
+cat << EOF
+LZMA utils allows to use LZMA (de)compression tools in the same
+way as gzip and bzip2 tools. The main purporse of the LZMA utils
+is to make usage of the LZMA format as easy as possible for those
+who are already familiar with gzip and bzip2.
+The first step was lzmash, a small wrapper script,
+which gave the LZMA encoder/decoder almost identical command line
+interface than what gzip and bzip2 have.
+As a whole LZMA utils provide a very similar command set than what
+gzip and bzip2 packages have.
+EOF