On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:41:43PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:28:48AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > 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. > > I'll be happy to test your patches, although bento is running in > degraded mode right now since it locks up whenever I try and do heavy > network traffic, so it might take longer than usual. > Thanks, Kris. I will let you know as soon as the patches are made available. This is likely to happen after I'm back from my vacation, no any rush here. 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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