RFC: liblzma and xz to FreeBSD base
Martin Matuska
mm at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 6 20:07:33 UTC 2010
Dear fellow devleopers,
I would like to propose an import of liblzma and the utilities xz, xzdec
and lzmainfo to base (vendor -> contrib).
As I was informed, libarchive is already lzma-ready, some of our
existing code could take advantage of liblzma instantly.
The source code is imported from:
http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-4.999.9beta.tar.gz
All GPLv2, LGPLv2.1 and GPLv3 parts are stripped from the code (they
cover only the build system and unimportant scripts).
liblzma, xz, xzdec, lzmainfo are public domain licensed.
A working patchset against HEAD (includes modified lesspipe.sh):
http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/patches/xz/
The only patched file is src/common/bswap.h, with the patch from the
archivers/xz port.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
mm
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