Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:17:21 +0200 From: Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE Message-ID: <20020925151721.GA8835@juno.home.paeps.cx> In-Reply-To: <200209241542.g8OFgXPE006612@intruder.bmah.org> References: <200209241542.g8OFgXPE006612@intruder.bmah.org>
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On 2002-09-24 08:42:33 (-0700), Bruce A. Mah <bmah@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.
Would it not be more preferable to have support for both gzip and bzip2
packages? Perhaps with a command-line switch (-g, -b) pkg_add could be told
to look for a different kind of compression.
For now, I agree, with all the 'older' systems around, making packages should
default to gzip, but a flag or an option in make.conf to select the
compression shouldn't hurt much.
Gradually, things could move forward into a bzip2-only era...
> 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.
That's a good idea. I think a lot of people - particularly those tracking
-STABLE and not reading the list (tsk...) - were quite surprised when pkg_add
stopped working (I certainly was, and I've been subscribed to the list for a
while, just not reading religiously).
> 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.
Perhaps add the make.conf setting or compile-time flag for bzip2, for those
who like the extra compression etc?
> 2. Partial back-out of changes to pkg_* on 4-STABLE to make gzip the
> default compression scheme for package creation and installation.
Sounds good, at some point perhaps -g/-b switches could be added? I've not
looked at the code, I don't know how difficult it would be to do? I think
that having the option to use both methods - defaulting to gzip so as not to
confuse people - would be a nice bonus.
> 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).
That's a good idea.
> 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.
You are forgiven :-)
- Philip
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