From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 23 6:45:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FBE14A0D for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 06:45:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.3/frmug-2.5/nospam) with UUCP id PAA18851 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 15:45:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id 93E3D8863; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:14:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:14:13 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Message-ID: <20000123141413.A49567@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200001230222.SAA18355@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001230222.SAA18355@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com on Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 06:22:47PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF AMD-K6/200 & 2x PPro/200 SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Don Lewis: > Doesn't bzip2 require a lot more memory for decompression? As I > recall, someone mentioned that this would cause problems for installing > releases on machines with only a small amount of RAM. Yes and is much slower than gzip. Having bzip2 as a port is enough IMO. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #77: Thu Dec 30 12:49:51 CET 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message