From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 1 05:18:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA09145 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 05:18:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA09135; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 05:18:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id XAA29711; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 23:47:50 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA29181; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 23:47:49 +1030 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 23:47:49 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Satoshi Asami Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Policy on bzip2? In-Reply-To: <199901011308.FAA11443@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Is there a policy on when it's good to use bzipped distfiles (which are > * usually much smaller than their gzipped counterparts)? For those of us with > * slow network links, the extra ~30% compression is extremely handy (not to > * mention better for conserving bandwidth on the net generally). Lots of folks > * are jumping on the bandwagon and providing their tars in bzipped form (as well > * as gzipped), so this seems likely to only increase in the future. > * > * Are there any reasons NOT to use bzippped distfiles where they're available? > > Unless it is much slower for decompression (I believe it's only slower > for compression), I don't see any. Having smaller distfiles will help > us (ftp, CDROM) too. In my experience this is correct. www/lynx-current is one candidate for this - the distfile is about 1.3M compared to 1.7M. Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message