From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 6:11:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3363E14F94 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 06:11:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 5772 invoked by uid 1010); 24 Jan 2000 11:14:55 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:14:55 +0000 From: George Cox To: David O'Brien Cc: Chuck Robey , 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: <20000124111455.A5739@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <20000123223616.C44712@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <20000123223616.C44712@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:36:16PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23/01 22:36, David O'Brien wrote: > BUT, if we bzip2'ed the base system distribution, we'd be able to fit > more Packages on the 1st CDROM, and that is a BIG win. With it in the This would indeed be good. Let's also remember that 'tar' has built-in support for bzip2 so it's not as if it would have no other programs to work with it. :-) best; gjvc -- [gjvc] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message