On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:55:03PM +0100, Thomas Lotterer wrote: >On Thu, Jan 09, 2003, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> Would it be reasonable to default to gzip/gunzip instead of >> compress/uncompress for the bootstap procedures? [...] >> >Dear Bill, >we discussed your inquiry today and changed the way OpenPKG makes use of >compress. See http://www.openpkg.org/faq.html#why-compress
Does the *.src.sh script benefit much from compression? I think that the majority of the stuff in that directory is gzip'ed tarballs for the packages being built which won't benefit from compression in any case. I don't think there's a whole lot left in that package that's compressible. As far as the actual bootstrapping procedure's concerned, my guess is that this is usually done on the same machine, so if one is going to use compression, then the important thing is that the compress be able to build files that the local uncompress will handle. If the built target script doesn't contain a compressed tarball, and it needs be transferred to other machines over slow LAN links, then it's left as an exercise to the admin to compress the target script using the tools available on all his/her systems. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.'' Will Rogers ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
