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

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:24:50AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.

If you're open to the general direction of the patch, we can bump
__FreeBSD_version and I'll add a conditional on that.

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