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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:42:58 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gzip in base system
Message-ID:  <452FC212.5000305@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061013162450.GA29904@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
References:  <20061013162450.GA29904@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>

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Divacky Roman wrote:
> hi..
>
> I noticed gzip version 1.3.5 (at least) was released while our base only
> has 1.2.4
>
> is this intended or just because noone updated it?
>
> thnx
>
> roman
>   
Hi Roman,

I suppose the latter, but note that delphij@ is working on replacing gnu 
zip with NetBSD's gzip implementation. See the following links:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101123
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/101225
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-October/066478.html

-- 
Cheers,

Gabor




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