FS#56676 - Add support for LZ4 compression
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Pacman
Opened by Pascal Ernster (hardfalcon) - Monday, 11 December 2017, 12:30 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 11 October 2019, 19:39 GMT
Opened by Pascal Ernster (hardfalcon) - Monday, 11 December 2017, 12:30 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 11 October 2019, 19:39 GMT
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Please add support for LZ4 compression. libarchive/bsdtar
support LZ4 since 3.1.900a / 3.2.0:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/master/NEWS This would also be a nice (and faster) alternative to LZO. |
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Closed by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Friday, 11 October 2019, 19:39 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/com mit/?id=0cbb128818726e4d41964ea8df8c42ee 37697ef7
Friday, 11 October 2019, 19:39 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/com mit/?id=0cbb128818726e4d41964ea8df8c42ee 37697ef7
The issues is that this is already getting quite unwieldy and it only gets more so every time we add a new one...
Anyhow, the approach your patch takes seems like a much cleaner (and more flexible) solution when compared to the code currently used.