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Date:      Thu, 02 Aug 2001 08:38:44 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
To:        sobomax@freebsd.org
Cc:        steve@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:  <20010802083844P.jkh@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B6906E0.36D0AD0E@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20010801132700W.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010801163443.D47172@bsd.havk.org> <3B6906E0.36D0AD0E@FreeBSD.org>

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That would leave the package adding tools insufficiently tested with
bzip packages.  Sorry Maxim, but it's just not going to happen for
4.4, at least not officially.

- Jordan

From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE discs (was Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bzip2 ...)
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:53:05 +0300

> 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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