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

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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,
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