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diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm index 97f254ff6e..5622af1fe9 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2020 Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> ;;; Copyright © 2020 Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> ;;; Copyright © 2020 Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> +;;; Copyright © 2020 Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -2249,3 +2250,31 @@ computations.") with their error correction data losslessly rearranged for better compression, to their original, binary CD format.") (license license:gpl3+))) + +(define-public tarlz + (package + (name "tarlz") + (version "0.17") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "mirror://savannah/lzip/tarlz/" + "tarlz-" version ".tar.lz")) + (sha256 + (base32 "0gpdm6z9pdr5bn31kxg73wm686hhpb5pdf5782pbl5a4xqqhqj90")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (native-inputs + `(("lzip" ,lzip))) + (inputs + `(("lzlib" ,lzlib))) + (home-page "https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/tarlz.html") + (synopsis "Combination of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor") + (description + "Tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of +the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz creates, lists, and extracts +archives in a simplified and safer variant of the POSIX pax format compressed +with lzip, keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip members. The +resulting multimember tar.lz archive is fully backward compatible with standard +tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz +can append files to the end of such compressed archives.") + (license license:gpl2+))) |