Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:06:46 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Soren Dayton <dayton@overx.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: egcs port uses bzip2, but not on FTP sites Message-ID: <19991011180646.F94488@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <86k8ot4cv3.fsf@polo.overx.com> References: <86hfk4azvy.fsf@polo.overx.com> <19991011172450.A34850@dragon.nuxi.com> <86k8ot4cv3.fsf@polo.overx.com>
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> Yes, yes. but would you say `bzip2ed' (as in, you got some 'tude, > dude!) or would you say bzipped, but write bzip2ped or something like > that :) Ah, I would say "bzip2ed". > hmmmm. The point is that a large number of the sites on the list (for > example, prep) do NOT have .bz2s lying around. Grrr. How nice. Our *lovely* friends in Cambridge decided to not mirror those bits from egcs.cygnus.com. > Perhaps it would make lots of sense to just grab the .gz. Space-wise it isn't. I guess the FSF just can't stand offering something in a better compression util since it isn't GPVed. > (In fact, a fallback to getting a .tar.gz might be a reasonable thing > to put in the makefile...) hum... not in the current Ports framework. :) -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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