Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 02:12:08 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: ec2764d5ec49 - main - Mk/bsd.port.mk: prepare the land for pkg 1.17 Message-ID: <YPjT%2BMuwECRSMe4X@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20210721145201.5jcynsooy4hva7ir@aniel.nours.eu> References: <202107211223.16LCNDjf070492@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <YPgxkAglZ2GRunni@FreeBSD.org> <20210721145201.5jcynsooy4hva7ir@aniel.nours.eu>
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 04:52:01PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 02:39:12PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:23:13PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > commit ec2764d5ec4933f52cb0718663f60f1e1b1eed7f > > > > > > Mk/bsd.port.mk: prepare the land for pkg 1.17 > > > > > > in next version of pkg, we now use a uniq extension: '.pkg' > > > whatever the compression is > > > > What's the rationale behind this decision, if I may ask? Particularly, > > what problem does it solve? Those of us who use custom PKGSUFFIX=.tbz, > > for example, -- how hard would it be to keep existing setup or adjust? > > TL;DR be able to switch compression format seamlessly for end users. > > On the other end I would really want to know what is the rationale for > using .tbz in 2021 :D I've switched to PKG_NOCOMPRESS and PKG_DEPENDS+=lbzip2:archivers/lbzip2 since 2017 when I got dissatisfied with ridiculously long LLVM packaging times* -- compressing resulting .tar's with multithreaded lbzip2 turned out to be faster compared to what pkg(8) could provide itself (heck, even single-threaded bzip2 was faster than multi-threaded xz). Things could have improved since then, but this setup had been working for me without a hitch so I don't see a reason to change anything. ./danfe *) https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=148077+0+archive/2017/freebsd-ports/20170416.freebsd-ports
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