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Date:      Thu, 1 May 2003 23:41:43 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs
Message-ID:  <20030502064142.GB93302@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030502062848.GB12809@sunbay.com>
References:  <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030502062848.GB12809@sunbay.com>

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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.

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.

Kris

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