From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 25 8:17:27 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 5AC5337B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horkos.telenet-ops.be (horkos.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C5B43E42 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:17:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 6301584726 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:17:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fortuna.home.paeps.cx (D5768732.kabel.telenet.be [213.118.135.50]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF8FC8471B for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:17:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from juno.home.paeps.cx (juno [10.0.0.2]) by fortuna.home.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17713ACE for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:17:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by juno.home.paeps.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C2E12555; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:17:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:17:21 +0200 From: Philip Paeps To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE Message-ID: <20020925151721.GA8835@juno.home.paeps.cx> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200209241542.g8OFgXPE006612@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209241542.g8OFgXPE006612@intruder.bmah.org> X-PGP-Fingerprint: FA74 3C27 91A6 79D5 F6D3 FC53 BF4B D0E6 049D B879 X-Message-Flag: Get yourself a real mail client. Try Mutt: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On 2002-09-24 08:42:33 (-0700), Bruce A. Mah 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 -- Philip Paeps Please don't CC me, I am philip@paeps.cx subscribed to the list. BOFH Excuse #330: quantum decoherence To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message