Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 23:41:43 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030502064142.GB93302@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030502062848.GB12809@sunbay.com> References: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030502062848.GB12809@sunbay.com>
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--61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:28:48AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > 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. I'll be happy to test your patches, although bento is running in degraded mode right now since it locks up whenever I try and do heavy network traffic, so it might take longer than usual. Kris --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+shMmWry0BWjoQKURAoUGAKDyx2qWI5mDFHrcbscAUGKUn2H3RwCfQ0li QOgxHceQROzbAvKSv0dt2p0= =rfMw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/--
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