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pigz Parallel GZIP
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Port Added: 2008-06-18 18:47:39
Last Update: 2023-08-20 06:25:50
Commit Hash: ff2ab3e
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License: ZLIB
WWW:
https://www.zlib.net/pigz/
Description:
Mark Adler, maintainer of popular zlib library has released a multicore capable Parallel Implementation of GZip, nicknamed PIGZ. Version 1.5 implements nearly all of gzip's functionality, including decompression of .gz and .Z (Unix compress) files.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/pigz
  2. bin/pigzn
  3. bin/pigzt
  4. bin/unpigz
  5. share/man/man1/pigz.1.gz
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/pigz-2.8/catalog.mk
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/pigz-2.8/LICENSE
  8. /usr/local/share/licenses/pigz-2.8/ZLIB
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • pigz>0:archivers/pigz
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/archivers/pigz/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install archivers/pigz
  • pkg install pigz
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: pigz
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1692512490 SHA256 (pigz-2.8.tar.gz) = eb872b4f0e1f0ebe59c9f7bd8c506c4204893ba6a8492de31df416f0d5170fd0 SIZE (pigz-2.8.tar.gz) = 121304

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
pigz
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest2.82.82.42.82.8n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly2.82.82.72.82.8n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest2.82.82.72.82.82.7-2.7
FreeBSD:14:quarterly2.82.8-2.82.82.82.82.8
FreeBSD:15:latest2.82.8n/a2.8n/an/a2.82.8
FreeBSD:15:quarterly2.82.8n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest2.82.8n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. gmake>=4.3 : devel/gmake
Library dependencies:
  1. libzopfli.so : archivers/zopfli
This port is required by:
for Build
  1. editors/libreoffice
  2. sysutils/tarbsd-builder
for Run
  1. archivers/py-xopen
  2. biology/bbmap
  3. sysutils/py-pyznap
  4. sysutils/tarbsd-builder

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
archivers_pigz
USES:
cpe gmake localbase:ldflags
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. http://freebsd.unixfreunde.de/sources/
  2. http://www.zlib.net/pigz/
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