From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 1 17:48:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21640 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:48:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21631 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:48:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id MAA32604; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:18:11 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA09691; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:18:10 +1030 Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:18:10 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Policy on bzip2? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > Just make sure the new releases of FreeBSD include bzip as standard then. Or make > it so that the dependencies require bzip. Although when we are going to bzip BUILD_DEPENDS= bzip2:${PORTSDIR}/archivers/bzip2 EXTRACT_CMD= bzip2 EXTRACT_BEFORE_ARGS= -dc EXTRACT_AFTER_ARGS= | /usr/bin/tar -xf - Is what I've been using, based on the egcs port which uses a .bz2 to save several megabytes. > files for inclusion with the CD-ROM set, then it is necessary to make it a > /usr/bin addition IMHO. And which one will be the default: bzip or bzip2? I don't > know too much about the changes between both, anyone care to enlighten? bzip2 is the currently-developed and more useful version. From archives/bzip/pkg/DESCR: Please use bzip2, which is the successor of this older bzip version. This port stays for compatibility reasons. For a discussion of the advantages of bzip2 over bzip 0.21 see http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/ In short: bzip2 ist faster, more reliable and *patent free* COMMERCIAL USE of bzip This program may or may not infringe certain US patents pertaining to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting transformation itself. Opinions differ as to the precise legal status of some of the algorithms used. Nevertheless, you should be aware that commercial use of this program could render you liable to unfriendly legal action. -- Just as a lot of ports require GNU Make to build, which isn't in the base tree but is built as a dependency, there's no problem as far as I can see with adding a similar dependency on bzip2. Kris > --- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain > asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... > Network/Security Specialist > BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve > ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message