From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 6 15:15:27 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB0C37B401; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:15:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f16NDZ350644; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:13:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:14:39 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn , obrien@FreeBSD.org, mi@aldan.algebra.com Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Feb-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> 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. > > Does bzip offer any backwards compatability with gzip, e.g. if we > bundled bzip in /usr/bin instead of gzip, would a hardlink to bzip > under the name "gzip" still DTRT with .gz files? We could always keep gzip in the base system if we added bzip2. > - Jordan -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message