support for gzip/bzip2 built-in
Bug #176740 reported by
Michael Biebl
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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partimage-ng |
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Bug Description
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!
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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!