Re: Default compresssion format in pkgsrc & extensions

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 09:57:50PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>       pkg_install is using libarchive nowdays, so should be able to
>       handle tarfiles compressed with gzip, bzip2 or (or compress),
>       or even zipfiles transparently, so it *should* not be an issue
>       any more.

It is not an issue after the pkg_install-renovation merge.

>       7zip's LZMA is LGPL'd, and lacks real unix permission bits (though
>       the latter item may be less of an issue now).

LZMA itself is available under public domain. The biggest two issues
with the format (not the algorithm) is lack of checksum and lack of
proper header. It is a bit more expensive to decompress, but at least
for remote access the better compression rate should almost always
compensate for that.

Joerg