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From:
Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky>
Subject:
Re: archivers/pixz: new port (1.0.7)
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kirill@korins.ky, OpenBSD ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:21:55 +0200

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  • Kirill A. Korinsky:

    archivers/pixz: new port (1.0.7)

  • Stuart Henderson:

    archivers/pixz: new port (1.0.7)

  • Greetings,
    
    This is reminder about this new port.
    
    On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:55:56 +0200,
    Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
    > 
    > Folks,
    > 
    > Despite of current security issue with xz/lzma the algortihm itself provides
    > great compression, and the existing XZ Utils provide great compression in
    > the .xz file format, but they produce just one big block of compressed data.
    > 
    > Here, a new port which is called archivers/pixz which produces a collection
    > of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible.
    > This is especially useful for large tarballs.
    > 
    > This can be used as seprated application or via tar, that described on
    > homepage: https://github.com/vasi/pixz
    > 
    > --
    > wbr, Kirill
    
    -- 
    wbr, Kirill
    
    
    
  • Kirill A. Korinsky:

    archivers/pixz: new port (1.0.7)

  • Stuart Henderson:

    archivers/pixz: new port (1.0.7)