From owner-cvs-all Sat Mar 27 8:56:46 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8F3153A4; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:56:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19874; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:56:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA14492; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:56:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: Adrian Penisoara , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin Makefile ports/news/tin/files md5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:53:11 PST." <19990327085310.A87737@relay.nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:56:11 +0100 Message-ID: <14490.922553771@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <19990327085310.A87737@relay.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >> > Maybe I should add to the handbook that bzip2'd distfiles are to be >> > preferred over gzip'd versions.... >> >> Then please suggest that bzip2 should be integrated in the base >> distribution too; would there be licensing problems ? > >I have thought of suggesting we import Bzip2 (it is under an MIT/CMU/UCB >license, not GLP) switch from .tgz for packages to .tbz. But don't care >to fight that battle. ;-) > >I have found the current split of packages between CD #1 and CD #3 to be >a pain. Ex: ImageMagic on CD #3 depends on stuff on CD #1, which I never seem >to install until ImageMagic demands it. And my two most used ports, vim5 >and mutt are on CD #3 and aren't in sysinstall's listing of ports. >BUT, I don't have any ideas how to do a better job than Steve did. So I >haven't brought this up before. How much smaller would all the ports be if we bzip2'ed them ? How hard would it be to make pkg_add aware of both formats and "DTRT" ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message