aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/gnu/packages/compression.scm
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorBen Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com>2016-01-25 08:31:14 +1000
committerBen Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com>2016-01-25 18:45:33 +1000
commit23f3cbb8de530e7219c56772334032ab7d90a480 (patch)
tree1a95ac8a65ccfd4affa063c6089b7f962f20c4b2 /gnu/packages/compression.scm
parent880d647d0f1a0ea0aea2af84fa2e99e3286b65a1 (diff)
downloadguix-23f3cbb8de530e7219c56772334032ab7d90a480.tar
guix-23f3cbb8de530e7219c56772334032ab7d90a480.tar.gz
gnu: Add pixz.
* gnu/packages/compression.scm (pixz): New variable.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/compression.scm')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/compression.scm29
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
index fd3a9ce98e..0f27fa9410 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2015 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
;;; Copyright © 2015 Jeff Mickey <j@codemac.net>
;;; Copyright © 2015 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -32,8 +33,10 @@
#:use-module (guix git-download)
#:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
#:use-module (guix build-system perl)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages backup)
#:use-module (gnu packages base)
#:use-module (gnu packages perl)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
#:use-module (gnu packages valgrind)
#:use-module ((srfi srfi-1) #:select (last)))
@@ -659,3 +662,29 @@ multiple processors and multiple cores when compressing data.")
;; Things under zopfli/ are under ASL2.0, but 4 files at the top-level,
;; written by Mark Adler, are under another non-copyleft license.
(license license:asl2.0)))
+
+(define-public pixz
+ (package
+ (name "pixz")
+ (version "1.0.6")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "https://github.com/vasi/pixz/releases/download/v" version
+ "/pixz-" version ".tar.xz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1s3j7zw6j5zi3fhdxg287ndr3wf6swac7z21mqd1pyiln530gi82"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (native-inputs
+ `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
+ ("libarchive" ,libarchive)))
+ (home-page "https://github.com/vasi/pixz")
+ (synopsis "Parallel indexing implementation of LZMA")
+ (description
+ "The existing XZ Utils provide great compression in the .xz file format,
+but they produce just one big block of compressed data. Pixz instead produces
+a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data
+possible and can compress in parallel. This is especially useful for large
+tarballs.")
+ (license license:bsd-2)))