From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 00:34:38 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 8338137B404; Fri, 2 May 2003 00:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC7C43FBF; Fri, 2 May 2003 00:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h427YV62019787 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 2 May 2003 10:34:31 +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 h427YVmX019782; Fri, 2 May 2003 10:34:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 10:34:31 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Tim Robbins Message-ID: <20030502073431.GC18773@sunbay.com> References: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502153334.A70914@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20030502063200.GC12809@sunbay.com> <20030502170957.A73477@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IMjqdzrDRly81ofr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030502170957.A73477@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> 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 07:34:38 -0000 --IMjqdzrDRly81ofr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 05:09:57PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:32:00AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > >=20 > > > > 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 don't mean to sound rude, but what is the justification for this? > > >=20 > > Sorry to be sounding obvious, but what other use other than > > better compression one should expect from a compression tool? >=20 > Here are the total compressed sizes for all the section 1 manual pages in > src/usr.bin: > compress: 670776 bytes, 1.33 * gzip size > gzip: 504723 bytes, 1.00 * gzip size > gzip -9: 504441 bytes, 1.00 * gzip size > bzip2: 494974 bytes, 0.98 * gzip size > bzip2 -9: 494974 bytes, 0.98 * gzip size >=20 > It does not look like bzip2 compresses the manual pages well enough to bo= ther > replacing gzip, especially considering the relative speeds of the two and= the > backwards compatibility issues. >=20 Please take into consideration Groff documents under /usr/share/doc and Texinfo documents under /usr/share/info too. 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 --IMjqdzrDRly81ofr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+sh+HUkv4P6juNwoRAiZvAJwPbNsE2L37anUpMeDZbkpxaMA+KACeIj0W Yckb0+r6Gm7ZwL5whg9gr24= =Ae2i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IMjqdzrDRly81ofr--