Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751081AbWIVQQo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:16:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751164AbWIVQQo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:16:44 -0400 Received: from emailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.24]:58551 "EHLO emailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbWIVQQn (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:16:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:13:39 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Lennart Sorensen cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Dax Kelson , Linux kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? In-Reply-To: <20060922140007.GK13639@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: References: <1158870777.24172.23.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20060921204250.GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <45130792.9040104@zytor.com> <20060922140007.GK13639@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 745 Lines: 23 >> 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) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/