#5155: update tar to 1.22 to get 'xz' support ---------------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: mmadia | Owner: nobody Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: Applications/Command Line Tools | Version: R1/alpha1 Keywords: | Blockedby: Platform: All | Blocking: ---------------------------------------------+------------------------------ xz is a lossless data compression file format that uses the LZMA2 compression algorithm. Like gzip and bzip2, it does not bundle more than one target file into an archive. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz Wikipedia] Version 1.22 now includes support for xz [http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/#releases GNU Tar Release Info] -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5155> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.