Package bzip2: Information

Source package: bzip2

Version: 1.0.6-alt1

Build time:  Sep 20, 2010, 10:07 PM

Category: Archiving/Compression

Home page: http://www.bzip.org/

License: BSD-style

Summary: Extremely powerful file compression utility

Description: 

bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor.

bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text
compression algorithm and Huffman coding.  Compression is generally
considerably better than that achieved by more conventional
LZ77/LZ78-based compressors (such as gzip), and approaches the
performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.  bzip2 is
by far not the fastest compression utility, but it does strike a
balance between speed and compression capability.

The command-line options are deliberately very similar to those of
GNU Gzip, but they are not identical.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
bzip2 (x86_64, i586)
bzip2-doc (noarch)
bzlib (x86_64, i586)
bzlib-devel (x86_64, i586)
bzlib-devel-static (x86_64, i586)

Maintainer: Dmitry V. Levin

ACL:
@qa_p5