Re: install/57593: xz is missing from the rescue set

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

The following reply was made to PR install/57593; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/57593: xz is missing from the rescue set
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 04:52:27 -0000 (UTC)

 khorben%defora.org@localhost (Pierre Pronchery) writes:
 
 >On platforms where sets are distributed as xz files (amd64, sparc64, and
 >aarch64 AFAICT) there is no way to uncompress the sets from the tools
 >available in /rescue. I think this is quite inconvenient, especially
 >since gz is available there (as expected).
 
 From gzip(1):
      This version of gzip is also capable of decompressing files compressed
      using compress(1), bzip2(1), lzip, or xz(1).
 
 and that's also true for the version built for /rescue.