tar -j .. uses bzip2. "The bzip2 utility must be installed separately."
I figured it was a long shot. Certainly not as I've done it in any event.
Thanks,
Penned by Theo de Raadt on 20221118 18:23.33, we have:
| I completely disagree on this, of course.
|
| We do not make base use ports.
|
| Todd T. Fries <t...@fries.net> wrote:
|
| > I love xz compression. It really pinches the bytes outa ascii files, which
log files
| > are of course made of.
| >
| > Is there a direction someone can point me in that would permit the
functionality this
| > diff provides without hardcoding it and perhaps be acceptable for the tree?
| >
| >
| > diff --git a/usr.bin/newsyslog/Makefile b/usr.bin/newsyslog/Makefile
| > index 1bb0ce36439..03787a6439b 100644
| > --- a/usr.bin/newsyslog/Makefile
| > +++ b/usr.bin/newsyslog/Makefile
| > @@ -6,4 +6,8 @@ BINOWN= root
| >
| > MAN= newsyslog.8
| >
| > +CFLAGS += -DCOMPRESS='"/usr/local/bin/xz"'
| > +CFLAGS += -DCOMPRESS_FORCE='"-f9e"'
| > +CFLAGS += -DCOMPRESS_POSTFIX='".xz"'
| > +
| > .include <bsd.prog.mk>
| > diff --git a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
| > index 066167151ca..7d3a959ad90 100644
| > --- a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
| > +++ b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
| > @@ -73,8 +73,15 @@
| >
| > #define CONF "/etc/newsyslog.conf"
| > #define PIDFILE "/var/run/syslog.pid"
| > +#ifndef COMPRESS
| > #define COMPRESS "/usr/bin/gzip"
| > +#endif
| > +#ifndef COMPRESS_FORCE
| > +#define COMPRESS_FORCE "-f"
| > +#endif
| > +#ifndef COMPRESS_POSTFIX
| > #define COMPRESS_POSTFIX ".gz"
| > +#endif
| > #define STATS_DIR "/var/run"
| > #define SENDMAIL "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
| >
| > @@ -925,7 +932,7 @@ compress_log(struct conf_entry *ent)
| > if (pid == -1) {
| > err(1, "fork");
| > } else if (pid == 0) {
| > - (void)execl(COMPRESS, base, "-f", tmp, (char *)NULL);
| > + (void)execl(COMPRESS, base, COMPRESS_FORCE, tmp, (char *)NULL);
| > warn(COMPRESS);
| > _exit(1);
| > }
| > --
| > Todd Fries .. t...@fries.net
| >
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