[pbuilder] 04/08: pbuilderrc.5: document new --compressprog details

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


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Author: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>
Date:   Thu Jun 16 10:56:59 2016 +0000

    pbuilderrc.5: document new --compressprog details
---
 pbuilderrc.5 | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pbuilderrc.5 b/pbuilderrc.5
index 88e62ab..c36ab7e 100644
--- a/pbuilderrc.5
+++ b/pbuilderrc.5
@@ -180,12 +180,15 @@ is specified for
 option.
 .TP
 .BI "COMPRESSPROG=" "gzip"
-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 "export http_proxy=" "http://your-proxy:8080/"
 Defines the proxy for http connection.

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