Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:50:41 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030502065041.GD12809@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030502064142.GB93302@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030502062848.GB12809@sunbay.com> <20030502064142.GB93302@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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--6Nae48J/T25AfBN4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:41:43PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:28:48AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:43:08PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1) > > > > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has > > > > it), and then switch the default compression method from > > > > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs. > > > > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.) > > >=20 > > > I believe this will break the ports collection, which expect (and > > > handles specially) gzipped manpages. > > >=20 > > If this is the case, ports collection will have to learn how > > to deal with them; I think this will be relatively easy. > > And note that this will only affect ports that use bsd.*.mk > > files to build manpages. >=20 > I'll be happy to test your patches, although bento is running in > degraded mode right now since it locks up whenever I try and do heavy > network traffic, so it might take longer than usual. >=20 Thanks, Kris. I will let you know as soon as the patches are made available. This is likely to happen after I'm back from my vacation, no any rush here. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --6Nae48J/T25AfBN4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+shVBUkv4P6juNwoRAkWlAKCL31U9j0fLEjnyqYhlUcaXwB8JNQCfcMok 3ky6hhe+bW6xywQ5SP1vZBE= =Q6YP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6Nae48J/T25AfBN4--
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