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Early unxz support

Open Googulator opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Right now, xz is built quite late, after the final Bash. If we had an "unxz" utility early on, srcfs & download size could be significantly reduced, by preferring xz archives wherever possible. For example, linux-4.9.10.tar.xz is 46MiB smaller than linux-4.9.10.tar.gz, which is what we currently use.

https://github.com/pts/muxzcat might be a good starting point, although this one expects input on stdin and writes output to stdout, which is incompatible with kaem.

Googulator avatar Dec 14 '23 04:12 Googulator

This is probably better placed oriansj/mescc-tools-extra.

I fully agree with this in principle though.

fosslinux avatar Dec 14 '23 11:12 fosslinux

#436 achieves this.

Googulator avatar Feb 09 '24 21:02 Googulator