support for gzip/bzip2 built-in

[Michael Biebl]

Hi,

this is more a feature request than bug report.
Although I very much like the approach to keep partimage-ng simple and tied to one task only (very unixy) I think it would make sense to support gzipped/bzipped image archives natively (by utilizing zlib1g/libbz2-1.0).
Operations like imageinfo currently work only on non-packaged archives. It would be nice if such operations would work without having to unpack the archives.

Cheers,
Michael

P.S.: I like your choice of CMake!

[Dmitry Ivanov (vonami)]

Hi, Michael

You are right, I'm trying to keep partimage-ng as simple as possible. After the basic operations (backup/restore) are tested well and if there is demand for this I might add support for compressed image files. That is a trivial task I suppose. For now it's a no-no because even the image file format is not stabilized yet.

PS. I simply had no choice because CMake is so easy to work with!

[Maxim Filatov (mczim)]

Hi there. I add source code to compress and decompress file. Dmitry please see this.

[Maxim Filatov (mczim)]

UPD: compress and decompress with gzip.

[Maxim Filatov (mczim)]

Hi again, i added source code for compress and decompress with bzip2. Dmitry, please check it.