./archivers/pigz, Parallel implementation of gzip

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 2.8, Package name: pigz-2.8, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

pigz, which stands for Parallel Implementation of GZip, is a fully
functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors
and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Filesize: 118.461 KB

Version history: (Expand)

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   2024-09-19 11:23:34 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
pigz: Update to 2.8

- Fixed a version bug when compiling with the just-released zlib 1.3
- Will save a modification time only for regular files (just like gzip since 1.10)
- Will write all available uncompressed data on an error, for partial data recovery
   2021-10-26 11:57:20 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (140) 
Log message:
archivers: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and SHA512
hashes.
   2021-10-07 15:06:15 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (140) 
Log message:
archivers: Remove SHA1 distfiles hashes
   2021-03-05 11:33:15 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
pigz: Update to 2.6

The key updates are:

- Add --huffman/-H and --rle/U strategy options
- Fix issue when compiling for no threads
- Fail silently on a broken pipe

If you like, you can see all the details at \ 
https://github.com/madler/pigz/commits/master .
   2020-01-26 18:32:28 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (981) 
Log message:
all: migrate homepages from http to https

pkglint -r --network --only "migrate"

As a side-effect of migrating the homepages, pkglint also fixed a few
indentations in unrelated lines. These and the new homepages have been
checked manually.
   2018-01-02 10:24:08 by Filip Hajny | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
Update archivers/pigz to 2.4.

- Generate Zip64 format .zip files when the output is greater than
  or equal to 4 GiB.
- Improved gzip options processing and return code compatibility
- Some bug fixes
   2016-10-02 11:06:11 by Filip Hajny | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
Update archivers/pigz to 2.3.4.

Changelog not available, notable changes from the commit log:

- Fix a bug where invalid LZW data could cause out of bounds
  access.
- Permit named pipes as input
- Fix bug in directory traversal
- Add warning for a zip file entry 4 GiB or larger
   2016-09-19 11:17:58 by Filip Hajny | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
Do not overwrite LDFLAGS, fixes build on at least SunOS.