Bug 580556
| Summary: | request for libguestfs to support .txz tarballs | ||
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| Product: | [Community] Virtualization Tools | Reporter: | Eric Blake <eblake> |
| Component: | libguestfs | Assignee: | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | mbooth, rjones, virt-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2010-04-13 21:30:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Added upstream: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=50195d6ec4e893f894ef1bbf7af6eeda56f96600 Fixed upstream. |
Description of problem: libguestfs has the tar-{in,out} and tgz-{in,out} commands for working with uncompressed and gzip-compressed tarballs. However, the xz tool (lzma compression) tends to have smaller disk space and comparable or even faster decompression. Therefore, it would make sense to have txz-{in,out} commands to natively support .xz compression. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ guestfish --version guestfish 1.0.85 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. guestfish -x alloc output.img 14M : run : \ sfdiskM /dev/sda , : \ mkfs ext2 /dev/sda1 : \ mount /dev/sda1 / : \ txz-in something.tar.xz / Actual results: txz-in something.tar.xz txz-in: unknown command Expected results: Create a disk image from the .xz-compressed tarball. Additional info: Workaround: Manually decompress the tarball, and fall back to tar-in instead of the requested txz-in.