linux-kernel - Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

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Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:09:13 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...uxtv.org>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Dax Kelson <dax@...ulabs.com>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> 
> 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.)
> 

Yes, it can.  If that's the way things go then I don't mind it, however, 
my biggest problem with lzma utils is that the command line parsing is 
done in a shell script wrapper.

Maybe I'll start using it anyway...

	-hpa

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