What is xz ?

[Robert Bonomi]

> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:25:11 +0000
> From: "b. f." <bf1783 at googlemail.com>
> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: What is xz ?
>
> > > 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:
> >
> > >
> > > 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
>
> Hmm.  Are you sure?

What I know is that I have a '7.2-RELEASE' i386 box, that's had nothing 
done to it after the original 'sysinstall' (from CDs, no net connectivity),
as far as _adding_ anything. it does run a highly customized kernel, but 
that is the only 'post-install' change made.  It is on that box.  This was
a near "full" install from the CDs, not a minimal one.