Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 00:24:50 -0700
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:14:07AM -0700, David O'Brien 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.
> 
> No problem, all my build ports have .bz2 manpages instead of bzip ones.

This patch is not suitable for committing because it will break on 4.x.

Kris

Received on Thu May 01 2003 - 22:24:53 UTC

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