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yuk7 / wsldl

Advanced WSL launcher / installer. (Win10 FCU x64/arm64 or later.)
https://git.io/wsldl
MIT License
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Add xz-support #71

Closed b9AcE closed 3 years ago

b9AcE commented 4 years ago

As several of the distros used with wsldl provide their rootfs.tar or equivalent in the significantly better compressed xz format instead of, or in addition to, the traditional gzip compression, it would be convenient if wsldl also recognized and was able to import a "rootfs.tar.xz" file without the users having to first decompress, recompress and then have wsldl decompress it again during the install-importing anyway.

Maybe even also add support for uncompressed plain "rootfs.tar" files as well, because... it only takes checking for the file and in that case skipping the decompression, so why not?

Biswa96 commented 4 years ago

This is WSL's issue. See https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6056

yuk7 commented 4 years ago

Supporting xz requires an external library like xz util and is cumbersome as it requires more processing.

yuk7 commented 4 years ago

Even on the wsldl side, XZ support is not possible due to license reasons. I like GPL, but I'm not thinking about making wsldl a GPL license.

yuk7 commented 4 years ago

I don't like beer, so I prefer free speech to free beer.

yuk7 commented 4 years ago

added tar file support in 96e1125. but xz is not yet.