Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:56:24AM -0800, bf wrote:
?? Have you looked at this code? Yes, there is: there is an "LZMA
compressed file format" and the 7z file format, both of which support
LZMA. The former format has been widely adopted by people who distribute
lzma-compressed tarballs, especially GNU-related projects that use the
lzmautils port. Some projects, like GNU coreutils, no longer distribute
the latest versions of their software in bzip2-compressed tarballs.

lzma files in the current form are a major PITA. The format doesn't have
a proper header and therefore is not really autodetectable.

Joerg
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