[OE-core] [PATCH] pixz: Add 1.0.6

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Sun Jan 10 20:26:39 UTC 2016


On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 18:22:49 Richard Purdie 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at 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"

Can we rely on this never changing? I thought we'd experienced problems with 
github's release tarballs being generated on the fly in the past...

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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