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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2012-08-22 17:24:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2012-08-22 23:32:39 +0200 |
| commit | 24cf75b9ef6818a228c9e071dea08bf97e3d8c4f (patch) | |
| tree | e0fc67121ff86cb0dde925b7aa9bfef7e9f48c76 /distro | |
| parent | e0fb536aaf314ae67d09f2698fe174bd69878827 (diff) | |
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distro: Add XZ.
* distro/base.scm (xz): New variable.
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| -rw-r--r-- | distro/base.scm | 27 |
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diff --git a/distro/base.scm b/distro/base.scm index 62a934a79d..c945205b72 100644 --- a/distro/base.scm +++ b/distro/base.scm @@ -205,6 +205,33 @@ superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus.") (license "GPLv3+") (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/"))) +(define-public xz + (package + (name "xz") + (version "5.0.4") + (source (origin + (method http-fetch) + (uri (string-append "http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-" version + ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "1dl35ca8fdss9z2d6y234gxh24ixq904xksizrjmjr5dimwhax6n")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (description + "XZ, general-purpose data compression software, successor of LZMA") + (long-description + "XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high +compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems, but also +work on some not-so-POSIX systems. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils. + +The core of the XZ Utils compression code is based on LZMA SDK, but it has +been modified quite a lot to be suitable for XZ Utils. The primary +compression algorithm is currently LZMA2, which is used inside the .xz +container format. With typical files, XZ Utils create 30 % smaller output +than gzip and 15 % smaller output than bzip2.") + (license '("GPLv2+" "LGPLv2.1+")) ; bits of both + (home-page "http://tukaani.org/xz/"))) + (define-public patch (package (name "patch") |