Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:40:40 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: itetcu@freebsd.org, jhell@DataIX.net Cc: matthias.andree@gmx.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages compressed with xz Message-ID: <4cf4d4a8.XZFA0ONHiBWt/ZMs%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20101129222351.47fc7534@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <AANLkTimHL9_qj3nB0jCvH_rah5JZBzEroz_J_Ou-TH52@mail.gmail.com> <4CF38D7F.6070206@gmx.de> <4CF3F16E.3020501@DataIX.net> <20101129222351.47fc7534@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org> wrote: > > It would be nice to support xz(1) compression for large selective > > packages like firefox or openoffice as those will never run on > > smaller systems. > > Trouble is it ain't no way (CPU, space, banhdwidth on our side and > space,bandwidth on our mirrors side) we could build a double set of > packages. but perhaps it would be possible to support compressing certain ports' packages using xz _instead of_ bzip2, the specification being made in the port's Makefile and defaulting to bzip2 (current behavior) if no alternative compression method is specified.
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