Monday 17th October 2011
Local Packages
Updated xz in F-16 and Rawhide only to 5.1.1alpha as per the Fedora version (see Bug #736318 for justification); I didn't backport it to older releases because not only is it an alpha release, it fails its own test suite and segfaults when built on some older distributions
- Support for multi-threaded compression was added using the simplest method, which splits the input data into blocks and compresses them independently (other methods will be added in the future)
Added the options --single-stream and --block-size=SIZE to xz
xzdiff and xzgrep now support .lzo files if lzop is installed (the .tzo suffix is also recognized as a shorthand for .tar.lzo)
Support for short 8.3 filenames under DOS was added to xz; it is experimental and may change before it gets into a stable release
Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to rebuild it against xz 5.1.1alpha in F-16 and Rawhide
Updated perl-autodie, perl-B-Keywords, perl-Carp-Heavy, perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder and perl-Module-Compat to fix the dist tag for CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux builds