xz

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/xz as a depdendency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/xz)

Runtime Depdendency

pkg_deps=(core/xz)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/xz

» Installing core/xz

☁ Determining latest version of core/xz in the 'stable' channel

☛ Verifying core/xz/5.2.4/20200306001321

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✓ Installed core/xz/5.2.4/20200306001321

★ Install of core/xz/5.2.4/20200306001321 complete with 1 new packages installed.

hab pkg binlink core/xz

» Binlinking xz from core/xz into /bin

★ Binlinked xz from core/xz/5.2.4/20200306001321 to /bin/xz

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Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal:

/bin/xz --help or xz --help

Usage: xz [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Compress or decompress FILEs in the .xz format.

  -z, --compress      force compression
  -d, --decompress    force decompression
  -t, --test          test compressed file integrity
  -l, --list          list information about .xz files
  -k, --keep          keep (don't delete) input files
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