Re: libarchive and zstd

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:46 PM LM <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was reading the Puppy Linux forum and one of the members mentioned an
> ArchLinux post (
> https://www.archlinux.org/news/required-update-to-recent-libarchive/ )
> about switching from xz to zstd.  I checked my build of libarchive and
> didn't notice any support for zstd.  I'm still looking through the code,
> but it looks like the zstd library ( https://github.com/facebook/zstd )
> is needed in order for libarchive to add in zstd support when built.  I
> double checked the BLFS entry (
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/libarchive.html )
> and was surprised that it didn't mention zstd as an optional dependency.
> Anyone using zstd format?  Any thoughts on using it with libarchive or are
> there other programs and libraries that are easier to work with if using
> zstd compression/decompression?  Thanks.
>
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I think this should have gone to the BLFS support list. As it is, I myself
haven't seen any reason to use this new format. Unless packages start
coming compressed using zstd, the editors likely won't worry about adding
it to BLFS. If you want to install the library then recompile libarchive,
have fun, and maybe tell us about it.

Flareon Zulu

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