Re: Call for testers: Replace GNU gzip with NetBSD's gzip implementation

From: Patrick Bowen <pbowen_at_fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:42:04 -0500
LI Xin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a patchset that replaces the GNU gzip with NetBSD's gzip
> implementation, which uses zlib to do actual compress/decompress operation:
>
> Go to your src/usr.bin and execute the following shar archive:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/bsd_gzip/shar-bsd-gzip-20061009
>
> Then, go to src/ and apply the following patch:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/bsd_gzip/patch-remove-gnu-gzip-01
>
> Currently this gzip implementation should work as a drop-in replacement
> for GNU gzip.  I am still working on some style issues here, etc., so
> the current focus is functional test.
>
> Any sort of comments are welcome.
>
> Cheers,
>   

Xin:

Seems to work fine as far as I can tell. Thanks.

Patrick
Received on Mon Oct 09 2006 - 21:42:09 UTC

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