[Lzip-bug] Patch adding lzip support to busybox

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I have written a patch that adds full lzip/lunzip support to busybox, 
including seamless lz decompression (of tar.lz files, etc), but not 
including tar.lz archive creation.

The resulting busybox lzip applet and the real lzip produce bit-for-bit 
identical *compressed* files.

I have also written a description of the changes and a listing of the 
size increases to busybox object files.

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/README_busybox_lzip_patch
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/busybox_lzip-6.patch.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/busybox_lzip-6.patch.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/busybox_objsizes.diff

The patch has to be applied to the latest busybox snapshot like this:

  cd busybox
  patch -p1 < <path>/busybox_lzip-6.patch


Please, test it and report any bugs you find.


Best regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.