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Date:      Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:53:05 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, murray@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 4.4-RELEASE discs (was Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bzip2 ...)
Message-ID:  <3B6906E0.36D0AD0E@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200108010013.f710DWf18857@freefall.freebsd.org> <3B67BD96.F27389D6@FreeBSD.org> <20010801122732.G13410@mao.stokely.org> <20010801132700W.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010801163443.D47172@bsd.havk.org>

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Steve Price wrote:

> That brings up something I've been meaning to ask.  Is there now
> going to be two sets of ISOs?  Will they be using the same package
> set?  The reason I ask is because Murray just asked about having
> a set on the 15th and I just assumed these would be the ones that
> you are using.  Is that true or is he asking about something else?
>
> BTW, using bzip2'd packages might save space but I'll need some
> time before the scripts I've written will be able to handle them.
> There are too many .tgz assumptions in them right now.

Instead final set of .tgz packages can be prepared as usually and then just
recompressed using bzip2 before burning into the CDs. This should also save
good amount of bento's CPU time, because bzip2 compression/decompression is
much slower than gzip.

-Maxim

> .Thanks.
>
> -steve
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:27:00PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > To clarify this point somewhat, I don't believe that any of the
> > "official" CD sets I'll be releasing will have this change since it's
> > not been adequately tested in any snapshot ISO images yet and I don't
> > expect to get anything but standard .tgz packages from Satoshi's
> > package build cluster.  Whatever WindRiver chooses to do with respect
> > to "repackaging" things is, of course, their business but it should also
> > be made clear in their documentation that what WindRiver customers get on
> > the CD sets will NOT map directly to the project's delivered ISO image(s)
> > if they choose to go this route.  I think that's only reasonable.
> >
> > - Jordan





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