Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:42:04 -0500 From: Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers: Replace GNU gzip with NetBSD's gzip implementation Message-ID: <452ADE4C.70501@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4529BF26.1040108@delphij.net> References: <4529BF26.1040108@delphij.net>
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LI Xin wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a patchset that replaces the GNU gzip with NetBSD's gzip > implementation, which uses zlib to do actual compress/decompress operation: > > Go to your src/usr.bin and execute the following shar archive: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/bsd_gzip/shar-bsd-gzip-20061009 > > Then, go to src/ and apply the following patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/bsd_gzip/patch-remove-gnu-gzip-01 > > Currently this gzip implementation should work as a drop-in replacement > for GNU gzip. I am still working on some style issues here, etc., so > the current focus is functional test. > > Any sort of comments are welcome. > > Cheers, > Xin: Seems to work fine as far as I can tell. Thanks. Patrick
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