Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:42:33 -0700 From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: bmah@freebsd.org Subject: HEADSUP: gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE Message-ID: <200209241542.g8OFgXPE006612@intruder.bmah.org>
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(Second try, after twelve hours of waiting for this post to show up.)
Due to some difficulties encountered while testing bzip2 packages for
FreeBSD 4.7-RC1, the Release Engineering team (with agreement from the
Port Manager team) has decided to revert back to gzip packages, at
least for the remaining 4.7-RC snapshots and 4.7-RELEASE.
As a side effect, this will once again allow older FreeBSD installations
to read recently-generated packages, although the use of such packages
is not officially supported.
Three things will happen, over the next few days, roughly in this order:
1. A bsd.port.mk change to make building gzip packages once again the
default on 4-STABLE.
2. Partial back-out of changes to pkg_* on 4-STABLE to make gzip the
default compression scheme for package creation and installation.
3. Upload of a gzip package set for 4-STABLE to the FTP servers,
which will most likely also be the package set for 4.7-RC2 (at
least for i386).
In the middle of this transition, there may be a few mismatches
between what compression formats are provided and expected by
different parts of the package system, thus, this heads-up notice.
We'll do our best to keep you-all informed on progress. Apologies for
any inconvenience this (un)change causes.
Bruce.
(For the RE team)
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