From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 24 8:42:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A1737B401; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED10943EF9; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:42:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020924154233.EACR28420.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:42:33 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8OFgX3e006613; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:42:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8OFgXPE006612; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200209241542.g8OFgXPE006612@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020729 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: bmah@freebsd.org Subject: HEADSUP: gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-423589168P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:42:33 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-423589168P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii (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) --==_Exmh_-423589168P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9kIfp2MoxcVugUsMRAkPfAJ0aP6f5alpxYFQDLub0qRxF5jrViwCg3ptR 95pIPaOFD+KUPK/A5lhvWmQ= =22R/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-423589168P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message