If memory serves me right, Philip Paeps wrote: > On 2002-09-24 08:42:33 (-0700), Bruce A. Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Due to some difficulties encountered while testing bzip2 packages for > > FreeBSD 4.7-RC1, the Release Engineering team (with agreement from the Port > > Manager team) has decided to revert back to gzip packages, at least for the > > remaining 4.7-RC snapshots and 4.7-RELEASE. > > Would it not be more preferable to have support for both gzip and bzip2 > packages? Perhaps with a command-line switch (-g, -b) pkg_add could be told > to look for a different kind of compression.
It's more complicated than that. Some things, such as "pkg_add -r" and sysinstall, require that pkg_add be able to automatically handle whatever type of compression gets thrown at them. This isn't an impossible problem to solve, but we judged that it was more than we could handle for 4.7-RELEASE. Bruce.
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