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Date:      Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:06:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is xz ?
Message-ID:  <201107021606.p62G6TbB046901@mail.r-bonomi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110702134355.abcf92f1.freebsd@edvax.de>

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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Sat Jul  2 06:45:00 2011
> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:43:55 +0200
> From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: What is xz ?
>
> On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:26:14 +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> > On 02/07/2011 07:38, Polytropon wrote:
> > > 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
>
> Correct. I'm currently on 7-STABLE where it's "not yet" part of
> the base system, but my new 8.2-STABLE also has it in /usr/bin.
> I believe it has been introduced with version 8...

It is part of  '7.2-RELEASE',   Dunno about 7.1




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