From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 00:35:47 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 0C0F837B401; Fri, 2 May 2003 00:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538EF43FB1; Fri, 2 May 2003 00:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h427ZVm2003821; Fri, 2 May 2003 00:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h427ZQpJ003816; Fri, 2 May 2003 00:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 00:35:26 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20030502073526.GA3789@dragon.nuxi.com> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Kris Kennaway , Ruslan Ermilov , current@freebsd.org References: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030502071407.GB3258@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030502072450.GA93725@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030502072450.GA93725@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Reply-To: current@freebsd.org 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 07:35:47 -0000 On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:24:50AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:14:07AM -0700, David O'Brien 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.) > > > > > > I believe this will break the ports collection, which expect (and > > > handles specially) gzipped manpages. > > > > No problem, all my build ports have .bz2 manpages instead of bzip ones. > > This patch is not suitable for committing because it will break on 4.x. If you're open to the general direction of the patch, we can bump __FreeBSD_version and I'll add a conditional on that. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)