[pbuilder] 03/08: pbuilder.8: document new --compressprog details

Mattia Rizzolo mattia at debian.org
Wed Jun 22 12:17:45 UTC 2016


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commit 00822a8f69dcd2c0fb3850b521074464b9894bd4
Author: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>
Date:   Thu Jun 16 10:55:52 2016 +0000

    pbuilder.8: document new --compressprog details
---
 pbuilder.8 | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pbuilder.8 b/pbuilder.8
index 3ab98cd..a2f8621 100644
--- a/pbuilder.8
+++ b/pbuilder.8
@@ -630,13 +630,15 @@ of
 
 .TP
 .BI "\-\-compressprog"
-Program to use for compression and decompression of the base.tgz.
-The default is to use gzip, and any program that can be used for
-the \-\-use\-compress-program option of tar can be given.
+Program to use for compression of the base.tgz.
+The default is to use gzip, and any program that can be used to compress data
+using a pipe can be used.
 
 If set to "pigz", compression and decompression is gzip compatible
 but will use all available CPUs.
-
+.br
+If set to "cat", there will be no compression at all (so compression/decompression
+will be a lot faster but takes much more space on the disk).
 .TP
 .BI "\-\-twice"
 Build the package twice in a row.  Useful to ensure the package cleans up

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