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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/scripts/pack.scm | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index ab44dd76ac..6b4fa5b441 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5345,7 +5345,8 @@ configuration triplets,, autoconf, Autoconf}). @item --compression=@var{tool} @itemx -C @var{tool} Compress the resulting tarball using @var{tool}---one of @code{gzip}, -@code{bzip2}, @code{xz}, @code{lzip}, or @code{none} for no compression. +@code{zstd}, @code{bzip2}, @code{xz}, @code{lzip}, or @code{none} for no +compression. @item --symlink=@var{spec} @itemx -S @var{spec} diff --git a/guix/scripts/pack.scm b/guix/scripts/pack.scm index 518bf6e7e3..55fb3e8df3 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/pack.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/pack.scm @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2018 Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> ;;; Copyright © 2018 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2018 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> +;;; Copyright © 2020 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -81,6 +82,11 @@ #~(#+(file-append xz "/bin/xz") "-e")) (compressor "bzip2" ".bz2" #~(#+(file-append bzip2 "/bin/bzip2") "-9")) + (compressor "zstd" ".zst" + ;; The default level 3 compresses better than gzip in a + ;; fraction of the time, while the highest level 19 + ;; (de)compresses more slowly and worse than xz. + #~(#+(file-append zstd "/bin/zstd") "-3")) (compressor "none" "" #f))) ;; This one is only for use in this module, so don't put it in %compressors. |