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Date:      Sat, 27 Mar 1999 09:44:10 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin Makefile ports/news/tin/files md5
Message-ID:  <19990327094410.C92338@relay.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <14490.922553771@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 05:56:11PM %2B0100
References:  <19990327085310.A87737@relay.nuxi.com> <14490.922553771@critter.freebsd.dk>

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> How much smaller would all the ports be if we bzip2'ed them ?

Good question.  I'll check it on Monday if nobody beats me to it.
 
> How hard would it be to make pkg_add aware of both formats and "DTRT" ?

Only two ways I can think of are 1. test the same way as ``file(1)'', or
2. hardcode the extension like both gzip and bzip2 does.  Otherwise not
hard at all.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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