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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:47:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      mi@aldan.algebra.com
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...)
Message-ID:  <200102061647.f16Gl6P56895@misha.privatelabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010206014325.H33865@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On  6 Feb, David O'Brien wrote:
= On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:57:55PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
= > >   Modified files:
= > >     usr.sbin/pkg_install/add extract.c main.c 
= > >     usr.sbin/pkg_install/create create.h main.c perform.c 
= > >                                 pkg_create.1 
= > >     usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib file.c plist.c 
= > >   Log:
= > >   - Add ability to handle bzip2-compressed packages;
= > 
= > Can't wait to see what this does for the packages on the CD sets. :-)
= 
= I  did  an experiment  with  the  4.0  CD  discs. Using  bzip2  helped
= significatnly. But I  don't feel like starting the fight  to put bzip2
= into the system... or maybe I do....

Bzip2  has a  more  liberal  license and  is  a  better (more  efficient
usually) compressor.  It is also  being actively maintained.  Some Linux
distros come  with man-pages bzip2-ed  instead of gzip-ed too.  IMHO, we
should use it.

	-mi



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