Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 08:27:40 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is xz ? 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>
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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 <quote> 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. </quote> -- 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
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