Re: [Lzip-bug] Missing .tar.gz file of some projects

[Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado]

On 09/09/13 16:46, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Hello Juan.
>
> Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> > Hi, I'm working on a port of the lzip project for OpenBSD. The problem
> > is some lzip projects only have tarballs compressed with lzip and our
> > ports framework doesn't support this filetype yet. Can you upload a
> > tarball compressed with gzip of every project?
>
> Thanks for packaging lzip.
>
> I guess the "lzip projects" you are referring to are lziprecover and
> lzd. The first is only useful to users of lzip. The second, only to
> students of computer science.
>
> I'll provide a gzip tarball for the next version of lziprecover to be
> released this month. I do not think that making a binary package of lzd
> is needed; no user would want to use it[1]:
>
> "Lzd is a simplified decompressor for lzip files with an educational
> purpose. Studying its source is a good first step to understand how lzip
> works. It is not safe to use lzd for any real work."
>
> [1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzd.html

Thanks. "lzip projects" is a bad wording because I had not planned to 
provide a port for lzd. I checked the files and saw two missing .tar.gz 
without to check also the name.

> > I know that I could compress the tarball myself or to decompress the
> > tarball with a pipe but both solutions are suboptimal.
>
> I hope lzip support will be soon added to the ports framework, because
> some GNU packages are already being distributed as lzip tarballs[2]:
>
> "Various compression formats are used on the server: .gz is gzip
> (http://gnu.org/software/gzip); .bz2 is bzip2 (http://bzip.org); .xz is
> xz (http://tukaani.org/xz); .lz is lzip
> (http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html)."
>
> [2] http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Great. I didn't know it. I'll take a look when the ports are imported.

> Best regards,
> Antonio.