From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 13 13:59: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C95837B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B653143E9C for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:59:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 8152 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2002 20:52:04 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-87.upnet.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (@150.140.128.167) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 13 Oct 2002 20:52:04 -0000 Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9DKxGaW015937; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:59:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9DKxGXB015936; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:59:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:59:15 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Old port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol "__sF") Message-ID: <20021013205915.GK10829@hades.hell.gr> References: <20021013194319.7A31D2A88D@canning.wemm.org> <3DA9D95D.C1319A72@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DA9D95D.C1319A72@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-13 13:36, Terry Lambert wrote: > I had upgraded the machine with a snapshot from the Japan snapshot > image server; apparently, no one ever thinks of compressiong ISO's, > so that was at the limit of what I could download. 8-(. > > It may be a good idea to put this flag in by default, at least until > 5.0-RELEASE, so that it will be there on the snapshots. That's a commonly asked question, and a very good answer is in the FAQ :P There are good reasons why the overworked snapshot servers do not attempt to compress the ISO images, which btw contain mostly .tgz files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message