./archivers/xz, XZ utilities

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Branch: pkgsrc-2012Q4, Version: 5.0.4, Package name: xz-5.0.4, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

LZMA is a general purporse compression algorithm designed by Igor
Pavlov as part of 7-Zip. It provides high compression ratio while
keeping the decompression speed fast.

XZ Utils are an attempt to make LZMA compression easy to use on
free (as in freedom) operating systems. This is achieved by providing
tools and libraries which are similar to use than the equivalents
of the most popular existing compression algorithms.

XZ Utils consist of a few relatively separate parts:
* liblzma is an encoder/decoder library with support for several
filters (algorithm implementations). The primary filter is
LZMA.
* libzfile (or whatever the name will be) enables reading from
and writing to gzip, bzip2 and LZMA compressed and uncompressed
files with an API similar to the standard ANSI-C file I/O.
[ NOTE: libzfile is not implemented yet. ]
* xz command line tool has almost identical syntax than gzip
and bzip2. It makes LZMA easy for average users, but also
provides advanced options to finetune the compression settings.
* A few shell scripts make diffing and grepping LZMA compressed
files easy. The scripts were adapted from gzip and bzip2.

Master sites:

SHA1: 7dd986aa42e0181cad3af236826f65514d2f7c19
RMD160: 25463b22fb24156a5d6c62450265ebe1b29e670e
Filesize: 1023.758 KB

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