Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 05:08:55 -0800 (PST) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Policy on bzip2? Message-ID: <199901011308.FAA11443@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812301231220.2157-100000@bragg> (message from Kris Kennaway on Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:36:31 %2B1030 (CST))
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* From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> * * Is there a policy on when it's good to use bzipped distfiles (which are * usually much smaller than their gzipped counterparts)? For those of us with * slow network links, the extra ~30% compression is extremely handy (not to * mention better for conserving bandwidth on the net generally). Lots of folks * are jumping on the bandwagon and providing their tars in bzipped form (as well * as gzipped), so this seems likely to only increase in the future. * * Are there any reasons NOT to use bzippped distfiles where they're available? Unless it is much slower for decompression (I believe it's only slower for compression), I don't see any. Having smaller distfiles will help us (ftp, CDROM) too. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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