On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:43:08PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1) > > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has > > it), and then switch the default compression method from > > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs. > > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.) > > I believe this will break the ports collection, which expect (and > handles specially) gzipped manpages. > If this is the case, ports collection will have to learn how to deal with them; I think this will be relatively easy. And note that this will only affect ports that use bsd.*.mk files to build manpages. That HEADS UP was just a plan announcement. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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