diff --git a/zlibs/imaging b/zlibs/imaging
index 2b8e6a3..04dc3e0 100644
--- a/zlibs/imaging
+++ b/zlibs/imaging
@@ -114,12 +114,12 @@ image_pack_dist() {
 		zerr
 	}
 
-	_xz=xz
+	_xz="xz -zv"
 	[[ $(command -v pixz) ]] && _xz=pixz
 	notice "compressing image with $_xz"
 	silly
 	pushd $workdir
-	$_xz -zv ${image_name}.img
+	${=_xz} ${image_name}.img
 
 	notice "generating sha256 for ${image_name}.img.xz"
 	sha256sum ${image_name}.img.xz > ${image_name}.img.xz.sha