Package description for 'gzip'

The gzip (GNU zip) compression utility

 gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement
 for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better
 compression and freedom from patented algorithms.  The GNU Project
 uses it as the standard compression program for its system.

 gzip currently uses by default the LZ77 algorithm used in zip 1.9 (the
 portable pkzip compatible archiver). The gzip format was however
 designed to accommodate several compression algorithms.

Various other information for package 'gzip'   (Repository 'base')

Author: Jean-loup Gailly <jloup@chorus.fr>
Maintainer: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 1.3.12

Download: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/ gzip-1.3.12.tar.gz

Buildtime: 3101 (5) seconds (on reference hardware)
Buildtime: 3890 (9) seconds (on reference hardware)
Package Size: 0.25 MB, 32 files

Dependencies: 00-dirtree bash2 binutils bzip2 coreutils cvm diffutils findutils
Dependencies: gawk gcc42 gcc42:dev glibc26 glibc26:dev grep linux26-headers:dev
Dependencies: ltrace make mktemp ncompress net-tools patch sed sysfiles tar
Dependencies: texinfo twoftpd ucspi-unix util-linux xmame

ROCK Sources:  futimens.patch,  gzip-1.3.11-addsuffix.patch,  gzip-1.3.11-rsyncable.patch,  gzip-1.3.11-zgreppipe.patch,  gzip-1.3.3-window-size.patch,  gzip-1.3.5-zforce.patch,  gzip.cache,  gzip.conf,  gzip.desc