BSD Ports

archivers/pixz 1.0.7 OpenBSD

parallel, indexed xz compressor

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Categories
archivers

Description

The existing XZ Utils provide great compression in the .xz file format, but they produce just one big block of compressed data. Pixz instead produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible. This is especially useful for large tarballs.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
OpenBSDarchivers/pixz1.0.7
FreeBSDarchivers/pixz1.0.7_1
NetBSDarchivers/pixz1.0.7
DragonFlyarchivers/pixz1.0.7_1
HardenedBSDarchivers/pixz1.0.7_1
GhostBSDarchivers/pixz1.0.7_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add pixz

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/archivers/pixz && make install

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.