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Date:      Fri, 2 May 2003 00:24:50 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs
Message-ID:  <20030502072450.GA93725@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030502071407.GB3258@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030502071407.GB3258@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:14:07AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:43:08PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1)
> > > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has
> > > it), and then switch the default compression method from
> > > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs.
> > > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.)
> >=20
> > I believe this will break the ports collection, which expect (and
> > handles specially) gzipped manpages.
>=20
> No problem, all my build ports have .bz2 manpages instead of bzip ones.

This patch is not suitable for committing because it will break on 4.x.

Kris

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