Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:36:49 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: rizzo@aciri.org, jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com, mi@aldan.algebra.com, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <200102062336.f16Naot46868@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <20010206151710.A86851@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Feb 6, 2001 3:17:10 pm"
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> Bzip2, not bunzip2. Do you really care about the time to compress > packages? not personally, but it might be an issue (maybe a minor one, ok) when building the packages. But so, you mean that there is no block sorting involved in bzip decompression ? I do not remember the details... > > Unless we really care the 5-10% savings in size, i'd rather _not_ use > > it, > > I personally do for the 1st CD. > > for portability and backward compatibility reasons. > > What portability reasons? It is stock in NetBSD and Solaris 8. probably i was missing context, i thought the discussion was on replacing gzip with bzip2 as the standard compession tool (not just for packages). cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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