From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 30 0:13:14 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3885714C38; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:13:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA37985; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:12:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:12:53 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199903300812.AAA37985@apollo.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin Makefile ports/news/tin/files md5 References: <19990327085310.A87737@relay.nuxi.com> <14490.922553771@critter.freebsd.dk> <19990329232243.A79481@dragon.nuxi.com> <199903300759.XAA37851@apollo.backplane.com> <19990330000135.A20563@relay.nuxi.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk : :> :The 3.1 CDROM set had 946M of packages. If these had been bzip2'ed, it :> :would have taken 843M. :> :> I, for one, don't see much point in saving 100MB out of a 950MB :> archive. If that is the only benefit bzip2 gives us, I'll stick :> with gzip .... : :It is my understanding there are distfiles missing from the 3.1 CDROM set :because we ran out of space. : :-- :-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) There's an old axiom in computer science about things filling all available space. Believe me, bzip2 is not going to solve this sort of problem. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message