On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Richard Purdie > <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> xz gives better compression results than bzip/gz but is often slower. >> Using parallel compression mitigates this somewhat and is particularly >> useful for the SDK. > > I have proposed another tool called pxz back in Sept last year > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-September/110971.html > > although pixz seems to be well maintained and active, would be nice to > know what do people mostly use.
The pixz README contains a summary of some of the alternatives - and does mention high memory usage as a potential issue for pxz. https://github.com/vasi/pixz#comparison-to-other-tools >> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> >> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/pixz/pixz_1.0.6.bb >> b/meta/recipes-support/pixz/pixz_1.0.6.bb >> new file mode 100644 >> index 0000000..e6e4ac2 >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/pixz/pixz_1.0.6.bb >> @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ >> +SUMMARY = "Parallel, indexed xz compressor" >> + >> +DEPENDS = "xz libarchive" >> + >> +SRC_URI = >> "https://github.com/vasi/pixz/releases/download/v${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz"; >> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "f6dc5909c9a31b192f69aa397ae8df48" >> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = >> "02c50746b134fa1b1aae41fcc314d7c6f1919b3d48bcdea01bf11769f83f72e8" >> + >> +LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause" >> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=5cf6d164086105f1512ccb81bfff1926" >> + >> +inherit autotools >> + >> +BBCLASSEXTEND = "native" >> >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> Openembedded-core mailing list >> Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org >> http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
