Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964815AbWIVRmO (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:42:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964822AbWIVRmO (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:42:14 -0400 Received: from allen.werkleitz.de ([80.190.251.108]:65247 "EHLO allen.werkleitz.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964815AbWIVRmN (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:42:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:41:37 +0200 From: Johannes Stezenbach To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Lennart Sorensen , Dax Kelson , Linux kernel , Linus Torvalds Message-ID: <20060922174137.GA29929@linuxtv.org> References: <1158870777.24172.23.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20060921204250.GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <45130792.9040104@zytor.com> <20060922140007.GK13639@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4514103D.8010303@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4514103D.8010303@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 87.162.93.17 Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:42:28 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on allen.werkleitz.de) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 33 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 - 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/