Package: xz-utils Version: 4.999.9beta+20100307-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream, patch Forwarded: lasse.col...@tukaani.org X-Debbugs-CC: lasse.col...@tukaani.org
Hi, attached is a patch that adds a small section about concatenating compressed files to the manpage. The text is mostly taken from [1]. Philipp [1] http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xz-utils depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii liblzma2 4.999.9beta+20100307-1 XZ-format compression library xz-utils recommends no packages. xz-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
diff --git a/src/xz/xz.1 b/src/xz/xz.1 index b60353d..68cd12a 100644 --- a/src/xz/xz.1 +++ b/src/xz/xz.1 @@ -1299,6 +1299,11 @@ stream, considers the file to be corrupt. This may break obscure scripts which have assumed that trailing garbage is ignored. .SH NOTES +.SS Concatenating compressed files +Just like with .gz and .bz2 files, it is possible to concatenate .xz files as +is. The decompressor can decompress a concatenated file as if it was a +regular single-stream .xz file. As mentioned above, .lzma files cannot be +concatenated. .SS Compressed output may vary The exact compressed output produced from the same uncompressed input file may vary between XZ Utils versions even if compression options are identical.
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