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Date:      Tue, 31 May 2005 16:39:42 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/bzip2 bzlib.c src/lib/libstand Makefile
Message-ID:  <200505311639.44245.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050531200850.GA90363@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <200505292156.j4TLuccN040566@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050531200850.GA90363@dragon.NUXI.org>

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On Tuesday 31 May 2005 04:08 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:56:38PM +0000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > sobomax     2005-05-29 21:56:38 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     contrib/bzip2        bzlib.c
> >     lib/libstand         Makefile
> >   Log:
> >   Make bzip2 support working again after bzip2 upgrade. This time commit
> >   BZ_NO_COMPRESS support to the bzip2 sources directly (yes, this takes
> > file off the vendor branch, but looks like bzip2 maintainer doesn't
> > care), so that it will not be removed when the next upgrade is performed.
> > Also, add a short note on how to test bzip2 support.
> >
> >   Pointy hat to:  obrien
> >
> >   Correct comment (libz -> libbz2) and remove useless full path to
> > zutil.h while I am here.
>
> What is is the problem you are trying to solve?  Why is BZ_NO_COMPRESS
> needed?  There are better ways of handling this.

I'm guessing cause libstand and the loader only support read-only (and thus 
only decompressing) operations on bzipped files.

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