From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 2 12:27:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74840106566B for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:27:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@seibercom.net) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209B18FC13 for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:27:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so378175qyk.13 for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.213.194 with SMTP id gx2mr193363qab.148.1309609663898; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (twdp-174-109-142-001.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.142.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u15sm3303277qcq.24.2011.07.02.05.27.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (zeus [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3R5v592ztwz2CG4p for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 08:27:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 08:27:40 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20110702082740.1264c54c@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <4E0F0056.1070501@onetel.com> References: <4E0EB955.7090308@gmail.com> <20110702083826.c979afa8.freebsd@edvax.de> <4E0F0056.1070501@onetel.com> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: What is xz ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:27:45 -0000 On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:26:14 +0100 Chris Whitehouse articulated: > On 02/07/2011 07:38, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the > >> md5 checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that > >> xz at the end stand for ? It looks like it stands for some kind of > >> compression (gzip/bzip2/some new format), but I can't figure > >> out exactly which one. > > > > It's xz compression, archivers/xz from ports, which is > > ...but before you install it you may find it is part of the base > system. > > %pkg_info -Ix xz > pkg_info: no packages match pattern(s) > %which xz > /usr/bin/xz > > I'm on 8.1-R From: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/relnotes-detailed.html The liblzma library for LZMA2 lossless data compression algorithm and the userland utilities xz(1), xzdec(1), lzma(1), and lzmainfo(1). has been imported. When the old system is upgraded to 8.1-RELEASE, deinstalling a version found in the Ports Collection (archivers/xz) and recompilation of the packages which depend on it may be required. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html