Am Donnerstag, den 06.09.2018, 18:03 +0200 schrieb Terence Waterhouse: > > > > > Message du 06/09/18 18:00 > > > De : "Michael Shell" <[email protected]> > > > A : [email protected] > > > Copie à : > > > Objet : Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2 > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Terence Waterhouse > > <[email protected]> wrote: > https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/ From > > that article, someone setup a bzip2 gitlab page: > > ... > > > Interesting and important information Michael. Thank you. Perhaps > > the gzip option might seem more reliable? But I am not qualified to > > answer that. > Hi guys,
first, please have a look to the mail format you use. It's quite hard to read. Simply text format would be appropriate, no html required. Regarding bzip2: We as LFS cannot "switch back" to gzip as many packages are provided bz2 compressed. Because of that, we need the bzip2 package in the book. Otherwise we would not be able to uncompress .bz2 files which might cause trouble, even more when coming to BLFS. The disapperance of bzip2.org happened timely just between 8.2 and 8.3. In 8.2 we have the old link (previously working well) and in the 8.3, we allready use another location (LFSs own server). So, if you nowadays use 8.2 (which is perfectly ok), you fill stumble over that issue that bzip2.org disappeared. We will not change 8.2 or earlier versions of the book as it is something like "modifying the past". -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
