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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-16234
2015-10-01 16:00:19.963867
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Name : pixz
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 1.0.4
Release : 1.fc23
URL :
https://github.com/vasi/pixz/
Summary : Parallel indexed xz compressor
Description :
Pixz (pronounced pixie) is a parallel, indexing version of xz.
** pixz vs xz
The existing XZ Utils provide great compression in the .xz file format, but
they produce just one big block of compressed data. Pixz instead produces a
collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data
possible. This is especially useful for large tarballs.
** Differences to xz
* Automatically indexes tarballs during compression.
* Supports parallel decompression, which xz does not.
* Defaults to using all available CPU cores, while xz defaults to using
only one core.
* Provides -i and -o command line options to specify input and output file.
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Update Information:
Pixz (pronounced pixie) is a parallel, indexing version of xz. The existing XZ
Utils provide great compression in the .xz file format, but they produce just
one big block of compressed data. Pixz instead produces a collection of smaller
blocks which makes random access to the original data possible. This is
especially useful for large tarballs.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update pixz' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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