xz-utils 5.2.1 on trusty: how to compile and re-package? Or ppa available?

Asked Aug 08 '15 at 20:08

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I want to compile and use a newer version of xz-utils, in this case version 5.2 as well as create deb-packages to be distributed on different ubuntu (14.04) machines. The recent changes to xz were significant, including multi-threaded compressing(!). I could not find a ppa of the recent 5.2.1 version of xz-utils (including liblzma, etc.) so i decided to try to create the package myself.

After downloading the source code, there are a lot of files different to the original sourcecode; most notably the "patches" folder. Unfortunately a full list of ubuntu-related changes is nowhere to be found, so I can try and recompile this ubuntu-style.

My questions are:

How to compile xz-utils including liblzma so it can be used as a system-replacement on Ubuntu 14.04 trusty, replacing the xz (XZ Utils) 5.1.0alpha?
How to package the deb files to be installed on other machines running Ubuntu 14.04?

thanks!

edited Aug 08 '15 at 20:46

asked Aug 08 '15 at 20:08

OpenGears

Run gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys AFE11347 and then check again.. – heemayl Aug 08 '15 at 20:25
ok thanks, this did the trick for the dsc file. i am still wondering how to proceed from here regarding the patches and the specifics for debian/ubuntu... – OpenGears Aug 08 '15 at 20:39
possible duplicate of Compiling source into a DEB package – heemayl Aug 08 '15 at 20:41
i rephrased the question so it is more clear what i am asking regarding xz-utils and liblzma – OpenGears Aug 08 '15 at 20:47

xz-utils 5.2.1 on trusty: how to compile and re-package? Or ppa available?

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