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Charles Wilson wrote:
> Not yet, because I'm not sure that GNU tar supports --xz yet.  You could
> use '--use-compress-program=xz" though.

GNU tar does support --xz as of 1.22.  Right now though, we have 1.21,
so this patch will have to wait until Eric rolls an update.

> xz is be able to auto-detect the format of the compressed file (.lzma or
> .xz) when decompressing.  However, to compress to .lzma, you need to
> specify explicitly that you want the lzma format (xz format is the
> default). There are two ways to do this:

Good to know, but right now I'm only worried about unpack().  cygport
still creates bzip2-compressed tarballs.


Yaakov
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