[csw-maintainers] New in testing: parallel gzip 'pigz' (pronounced pig-zee)

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Thu Dec 31 12:59:06 CET 2009


Hi Maciej,

Am 27.12.2009 um 02:00 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>  
> wrote:
>> (...)
>> I guess I'll switch package compression in GAR to pigz after
>> release.
>
> What's the status of pigz usage/deployment? Some packages I work with,
> take quite a long time to gzip.

It works fine. The place to patch would be bin/mkpackage. I guess it  
would
be best to add usepigz as extra option, but I haven't gotten around to  
do so.
Would you mind patching it in?


Best regards

   -- Dago



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