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Install this package:

emerge -a app-arch/pxz

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask app-arch/pxz

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a app-arch/pxz

Package Information

Description:

Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of running LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple cores and processors simultaneously. Its primary goal is to utilize all resources to speed up compression time with minimal possible influence on compression ratio.

Homepage:

https://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/

License:

GPL-2

Versions

Metadata

Description

• Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of running LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple cores and processors simultaneously. Its primary goal is to utilize all resources to speed up compression time with minimal possible influence on compression ratio.

Maintainers

• Patrick McLean (chutzpah@gentoo.org) - Type: person

Upstream

• Remote IDs:
  • github: jnovy/pxz

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>chutzpah@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Patrick McLean</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription lang="en">
	Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of running LZMA
	compression of different parts of an input file on multiple cores and
	processors simultaneously. Its primary goal is to utilize all resources
	to speed up compression time with minimal possible influence on compression
	ratio.
	</longdescription>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="github">jnovy/pxz</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild pxz-5.0_pre20220509-r1

Files

• pxz-5.0_pre20220509-fix-xz-path.patch

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