Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932533AbWIVQdY (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:33:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932555AbWIVQdY (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:33:24 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:30899 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932533AbWIVQdX (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:33:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4514103D.8010303@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:33:01 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Lennart Sorensen , Dax Kelson , Linux kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? References: <1158870777.24172.23.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20060921204250.GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <45130792.9040104@zytor.com> <20060922140007.GK13639@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 831 Lines: 23 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. -hpa - 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/