Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:28:48 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030502062848.GB12809@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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--jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:43:08PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1) > > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has > > it), and then switch the default compression method from > > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs. > > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.) >=20 > I believe this will break the ports collection, which expect (and > handles specially) gzipped manpages. >=20 If this is the case, ports collection will have to learn how to deal with them; I think this will be relatively easy. And note that this will only affect ports that use bsd.*.mk files to build manpages. That HEADS UP was just a plan announcement. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+shAgUkv4P6juNwoRAtuuAJ9mfgdUCpN7azUqPIMAez1pezhIyACfUZ+1 KwJ/6B6I2gaF+nMbiJicZIU= =z65J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes--
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