Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:18:10 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Policy on bzip2? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901021214001.3978-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990101204155.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> Just make sure the new releases of FreeBSD include bzip as standard then. Or make
> it so that the dependencies require bzip. Although when we are going to bzip
BUILD_DEPENDS= bzip2:${PORTSDIR}/archivers/bzip2
EXTRACT_CMD= bzip2
EXTRACT_BEFORE_ARGS= -dc
EXTRACT_AFTER_ARGS= | /usr/bin/tar -xf -
Is what I've been using, based on the egcs port which uses a .bz2 to save
several megabytes.
> files for inclusion with the CD-ROM set, then it is necessary to make it a
> /usr/bin addition IMHO. And which one will be the default: bzip or bzip2? I don't
> know too much about the changes between both, anyone care to enlighten?
bzip2 is the currently-developed and more useful version. From
archives/bzip/pkg/DESCR:
Please use bzip2, which is the successor of this older bzip version.
This port stays for compatibility reasons. For a discussion of the
advantages of bzip2 over bzip 0.21 see
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
In short: bzip2 ist faster, more reliable and *patent free*
COMMERCIAL USE of bzip
This program may or may not infringe certain US patents pertaining
to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting transformation itself.
Opinions differ as to the precise legal status of some of the
algorithms used. Nevertheless, you should be aware that commercial
use of this program could render you liable to unfriendly legal
action.
--
Just as a lot of ports require GNU Make to build, which isn't in the base tree
but is built as a dependency, there's no problem as far as I can see with
adding a similar dependency on bzip2.
Kris
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