Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:37:05 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, 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: <01080209370502.36347@snoopy> In-Reply-To: <20010802083844P.jkh@freebsd.org> References: <20010801132700W.jkh@freebsd.org> <3B6906E0.36D0AD0E@FreeBSD.org> <20010802083844P.jkh@freebsd.org>
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On Thursday 02 August 2001 08:38 am, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 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.
Would this not be a great canidate for the 5.0 release (converting
from tgz to bz2 at least to the non programmer looks like much
work).
- JimP
>
> - 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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