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
| System | Port | Version |
|---|---|---|
| OpenBSD | archivers/pixz | 1.0.7 |
| FreeBSD | archivers/pixz | 1.0.7_1 |
| NetBSD | archivers/pixz | 1.0.7 |
| DragonFly | archivers/pixz | 1.0.7_1 |
| HardenedBSD | archivers/pixz | 1.0.7_1 |
| GhostBSD | archivers/pixz | 1.0.7_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.