From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 24 20:14:15 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 BB81A37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AFBC43E65 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020925031412.ODS16629.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 03:14:12 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8P3EB3e014740; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:14:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8P3EB2D014739; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200209250314.g8P3EB2D014739@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020729 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE In-Reply-To: <87u1ke6c39.fsf@pooh.int> References: <87znu66hr9.fsf@pooh.int> <200209250122.g8P1MlZJ013525@intruder.bmah.org> <87u1ke6c39.fsf@pooh.int> Comments: In-reply-to Kirk Strauser message dated "24 Sep 2002 21:24:10 -0500." From: "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_-1515138134P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:14:11 -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_-1515138134P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Kirk Strauser wrote: > OK, then, I'm a little lost. Why would moving to bzip2 compression be a big > problem, then? People with older systems that don't support bzip2 can still > compile and install ports normally - they just can't download a pre-compiled > package. Is this correct? So, other than some time compiling, they're not > actually losing anything at all, are they? Right, but remember that a lot of people install things from packages. Once again...there isn't anything wrong in principle with bzip2 packages. We just weren't ready for it for 4.7. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1515138134P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9kSoD2MoxcVugUsMRAqgWAJkBl+UzahGGvQKHiaAoFMsUkByiNwCg+2hG slEhjle09GPeqpUk/rU9Ecg= =Rl17 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1515138134P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message