pkgtools and xz compressor

[andrew clarke]

Hi,

I notice FreeBSD 7.2's pkg_add, pkg_create, etc don't have support for
the xz compressor, evidently due to lack of support for the xz format
in bsdtar.  Does bsdtar support xz in FreeBSD 8.0?  Failing that, is
xz support for the pkgtools something being looked at in future?

xz's compression ratios tend to be much better than bzip2's, eg.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 27360899 2009-12-05 03:20 samba-3.0.37,1.tbz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16672892 2010-01-01 12:15 samba-3.0.37,1.tar.xz

Happy new year to FreeBSD users worldwide!

Regards
Andrew