Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:30:51 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Matthias Andree <mandree@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r546739 - in head/mail: fetchmail fetchmail/files fetchmailconf Message-ID: <20200828153051.GA21571@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <202008281442.07SEgDps089371@repo.freebsd.org> References: <202008281442.07SEgDps089371@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 02:42:13PM +0000, Matthias Andree wrote: > New Revision: 546739 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/546739 > > Log: > mail/fetchmail: update to 6.4.10 > > while here, switch distfile back to xz format and update Quoting the PR: "switches from lzip to xz since it appears that xz is more popular, we have it in the base system, and it does not make a real difference compression-wise." It should be noted that .lz had been slowly gaining popularity and more software are using it these days (astro/gnuastro, ftp/wget, lang/guile2, to name a few). Lzip often offers better compression ratio and archival features compared to the common .gz, .bz2, or .xz formats. The latter had been criticized as being inadequate for long-term archiving [*]. FreeBSD natively (in the base system) supports .lz archives. That said, you might want reconsider .xz preference. ./danfe [*] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
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