What is xz ?
Robert Bonomi
bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com
Sat Jul 2 16:06:08 UTC 2011
> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org Sat Jul 2 06:45:00 2011
> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:43:55 +0200
> From: Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>
> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: What is xz ?
>
> On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:26:14 +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> > On 02/07/2011 07:38, Polytropon wrote:
> > > It's xz compression, archivers/xz from ports, which is
> >
> > ...but before you install it you may find it is part of the base system.
> >
> > %pkg_info -Ix xz
> > pkg_info: no packages match pattern(s)
> > %which xz
> > /usr/bin/xz
> >
> > I'm on 8.1-R
>
> Correct. I'm currently on 7-STABLE where it's "not yet" part of
> the base system, but my new 8.2-STABLE also has it in /usr/bin.
> I believe it has been introduced with version 8...
It is part of '7.2-RELEASE', Dunno about 7.1
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