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

[Andre McCurdy]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> 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.
>
> I have proposed another tool called pxz back in Sept last year
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-September/110971.html
>
> although pixz seems to be well maintained and active, would be nice to
> know what do people mostly use.

The pixz README contains a summary of some of the alternatives - and
does mention high memory usage as a potential issue for pxz.

  https://github.com/vasi/pixz#comparison-to-other-tools

>>
>> 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"
>> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "f6dc5909c9a31b192f69aa397ae8df48"
>> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "02c50746b134fa1b1aae41fcc314d7c6f1919b3d48bcdea01bf11769f83f72e8"
>> +
>> +LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=5cf6d164086105f1512ccb81bfff1926"
>> +
>> +inherit autotools
>> +
>> +BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
>>
>>
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