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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 98c5d1e91d..340b806962 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -758,6 +758,11 @@ Support for build offloading (@pxref{Daemon Offload Setup}) and version 0.10.2 or later. @item +When @url{https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzlib.html, lzlib} is available, lzlib +substitutes can be used and @command{guix publish} can compress substitutes +with lzlib. + +@item When @url{http://www.bzip.org, libbz2} is available, @command{guix-daemon} can use it to compress build logs. @end itemize @@ -9656,12 +9661,20 @@ accept connections from any interface. Change privileges to @var{user} as soon as possible---i.e., once the server socket is open and the signing key has been read. -@item --compression[=@var{level}] -@itemx -C [@var{level}] -Compress data using the given @var{level}. When @var{level} is zero, -disable compression. The range 1 to 9 corresponds to different gzip -compression levels: 1 is the fastest, and 9 is the best (CPU-intensive). -The default is 3. +@item --compression[=@var{method}[:@var{level}]] +@itemx -C [@var{method}[:@var{level}]] +Compress data using the given @var{method} and @var{level}. @var{method} is +one of @code{lzip} and @code{gzip}; when @var{method} is omitted, @code{gzip} +is used. + +When @var{level} is zero, disable compression. The range 1 to 9 corresponds +to different compression levels: 1 is the fastest, and 9 is the best +(CPU-intensive). The default is 3. + +Usually, @code{lzip} compresses noticeably better than @code{gzip} for a small +increase in CPU usage; see +@uref{https://nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html,benchmarks on the lzip Web +page}. Unless @option{--cache} is used, compression occurs on the fly and the compressed streams are not |