Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1885 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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> On Tuesday, 2009-04-07 at 19:43 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
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> > Yeah, it's really quite old, but somehow lzma has been living a life
> > in the unknown for quite some time.  Well, unknown to me, anyway.
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> openSUSE switched to lzma in the rpm packages for 11.0, I think it
> was, so we have been using it. It caused a problem for those
> attempting to upgrade from 10.3 to 11.0 because the 10.3 rpm program
> could not uncompress those.

Yep, that's when I first heard of lzma. 

> I have also considered lzma, but, last time I tried, "less" could not
> open and display those files. Also, zgrep does not support it. Nor
> midnight commander - and those are tools I use to open and look into
> old logs.

I don't know about less, but I've got an lzless and an lzgrep.  To me
the 50% space saving and the faster decompression is a big win, so I
can easily live with lzless and lzgrep. 


/Per


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Per Jessen, Zürich (10.9°C)

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