[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Add support for 7-Zip compressed files

[Juro Bystricky]

7-Zip offers substantially better compression than other compression
formats. In fact, 7-Zip explicitly claims it provides the best compression ratio.
To quickly test the claim, I compressed a gcc 5.2 538.8 MB tree snapshot in various ways:

tar.bz2: 114.0 MB
tar.gz:  112.4 MB
tar.7z:   70.3 MB

At present, there is no support for 7-Zip compressed files in Bitbake.
Various public Git repositories only allow pushing files of certain max size,
AFAIK Github only allows 100MB, so there are cases where it is desirable
to use maximum compression possible.


Juro Bystricky (1):
  bitbake:fetch2/__init__.py: Add support for 7-Zip

 bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

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