From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 23:28:56 2003 Return-Path: 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 7D90837B405 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 23:28:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472EC43FA3 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 23:28:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h426Sn62013246 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 2 May 2003 09:28:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h426Smwi013245; Fri, 2 May 2003 09:28:48 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:28:48 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20030502062848.GB12809@sunbay.com> References: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 06:28:56 -0000 --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--