gzip in base system

[Gábor Kövesdán]

Divacky Roman wrote:
> hi..
>
> I noticed gzip version 1.3.5 (at least) was released while our base only
> has 1.2.4
>
> is this intended or just because noone updated it?
>
> thnx
>
> roman
>   
Hi Roman,

I suppose the latter, but note that delphij@ is working on replacing gnu 
zip with NetBSD's gzip implementation. See the following links:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101123
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/101225
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-October/066478.html

-- 
Cheers,

Gabor