From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 6 8:48:31 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from privatecube.privatelabs.com (unknown [63.114.185.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0960237B67D; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:47:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from misha.privatelabs.com (root@misha.plten [10.0.0.106]) by privatecube.privatelabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA27325; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:47:31 -0500 Received: from virtual-estates.net (mi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by misha.privatelabs.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f16Gl6P56895; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:47:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi@virtual-estates.net) Message-Id: <200102061647.f16Gl6P56895@misha.privatelabs.com> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:47:05 -0500 (EST) From: mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Sheldon Hearn , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20010206014325.H33865@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 6 Feb, David O'Brien wrote: = On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:57:55PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: = > > Modified files: = > > usr.sbin/pkg_install/add extract.c main.c = > > usr.sbin/pkg_install/create create.h main.c perform.c = > > pkg_create.1 = > > usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib file.c plist.c = > > Log: = > > - Add ability to handle bzip2-compressed packages; = > = > Can't wait to see what this does for the packages on the CD sets. :-) = = I did an experiment with the 4.0 CD discs. Using bzip2 helped = significatnly. But I don't feel like starting the fight to put bzip2 = into the system... or maybe I do.... Bzip2 has a more liberal license and is a better (more efficient usually) compressor. It is also being actively maintained. Some Linux distros come with man-pages bzip2-ed instead of gzip-ed too. IMHO, we should use it. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message