Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 00:35:26 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@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: <20030502073526.GA3789@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030502072450.GA93725@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030502071407.GB3258@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030502072450.GA93725@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:24:50AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:14:07AM -0700, David O'Brien 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.) > > > > > > I believe this will break the ports collection, which expect (and > > > handles specially) gzipped manpages. > > > > No problem, all my build ports have .bz2 manpages instead of bzip ones. > > This patch is not suitable for committing because it will break on 4.x. If you're open to the general direction of the patch, we can bump __FreeBSD_version and I'll add a conditional on that. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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