Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:14:39 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <XFMail.010206151439.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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On 06-Feb-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> 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. > > Does bzip offer any backwards compatability with gzip, e.g. if we > bundled bzip in /usr/bin instead of gzip, would a hardlink to bzip > under the name "gzip" still DTRT with .gz files? We could always keep gzip in the base system if we added bzip2. > - Jordan -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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