Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> widely used until there is an "lzip" which does the same thing.  I 
>> actually started the work of adding LZMA support to gzip, but then 
>> realized it would be better if a new encapsulation format with proper 
>> 64-bit support everywhere was created.
>
>It doesn't handle streaming?
>
>So you can't do: tar c dirname | 7zip dirname.tar.7z ?

man 7z [slightly changed for reasonability]:

  -si
      Read data from StdIn (eg: tar -c directory | 7z a -si directory.tar.7z)



Jan Engelhardt
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