Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:59:57 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> To: Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com Cc: sobomax@freebsd.org, steve@freebsd.org, murray@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE discs (was Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bzip2 ...) Message-ID: <20010802145957D.jkh@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <01080209370502.36347@snoopy> References: <3B6906E0.36D0AD0E@FreeBSD.org> <20010802083844P.jkh@freebsd.org> <01080209370502.36347@snoopy>
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Sure, I don't see why not. From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE discs (was Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bzip2 ...) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:37:05 -0700 > On Thursday 02 August 2001 08:38 am, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > That would leave the package adding tools insufficiently tested with > > bzip packages. Sorry Maxim, but it's just not going to happen for > > 4.4, at least not officially. > > Would this not be a great canidate for the 5.0 release (converting > from tgz to bz2 at least to the non programmer looks like much > work). > > - JimP > > > > > - Jordan > > > > From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> > > Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE discs (was Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bzip2 ...) > > Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:53:05 +0300 > > > > > Steve Price wrote: > > > > That brings up something I've been meaning to ask. Is there now > > > > going to be two sets of ISOs? Will they be using the same package > > > > set? The reason I ask is because Murray just asked about having > > > > a set on the 15th and I just assumed these would be the ones that > > > > you are using. Is that true or is he asking about something else? > > > > > > > > BTW, using bzip2'd packages might save space but I'll need some > > > > time before the scripts I've written will be able to handle them. > > > > There are too many .tgz assumptions in them right now. > > > > > > Instead final set of .tgz packages can be prepared as usually and then > > > just recompressed using bzip2 before burning into the CDs. This should > > > also save good amount of bento's CPU time, because bzip2 > > > compression/decompression is much slower than gzip. > > > > > > -Maxim > > > > > > > .Thanks. > > > > > > > > -steve > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:27:00PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > > To clarify this point somewhat, I don't believe that any of the > > > > > "official" CD sets I'll be releasing will have this change since it's > > > > > not been adequately tested in any snapshot ISO images yet and I don't > > > > > expect to get anything but standard .tgz packages from Satoshi's > > > > > package build cluster. Whatever WindRiver chooses to do with respect > > > > > to "repackaging" things is, of course, their business but it should > > > > > also be made clear in their documentation that what WindRiver > > > > > customers get on the CD sets will NOT map directly to the project's > > > > > delivered ISO image(s) if they choose to go this route. I think > > > > > that's only reasonable. > > > > > > > > > > - Jordan > > -- > --- @(#) $Id: dot.signature,v 1.10 2001/05/17 23:38:49 Jim.Pirzyk Exp $ > __o Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com ------------- pirzyk@freebsd.org > _'\<,_ Senior Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Feature Animation > (*)/ (*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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