Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 20:41:55 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: ache@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Policy on bzip2? Message-ID: <XFMail.990101204155.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901012346060.20358-100000@bragg>
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On 01-Jan-99 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > >> * Is there a policy on when it's good to use bzipped distfiles (which are >> * usually much smaller than their gzipped counterparts)? For those of us with >> * slow network links, the extra ~30% compression is extremely handy (not to >> * mention better for conserving bandwidth on the net generally). Lots of >> Unless it is much slower for decompression (I believe it's only slower >> for compression), I don't see any. Having smaller distfiles will help >> us (ftp, CDROM) too. > > In my experience this is correct. www/lynx-current is one candidate for this - > the distfile is about 1.3M compared to 1.7M. 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 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? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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