I completely disagree on this, of course.
We do not make base use ports.
Todd T. Fries <t...@fries.net> wrote:
> I love xz compression. It really pinches the bytes outa ascii files, which
> log files
> are of course made of.
>
> Is there a direction someone can point me in that would permit the
> functionality this
> diff provides without hardcoding it and perhaps be acceptable for the tree?
>
>
> diff --git a/usr.bin/newsyslog/Makefile b/usr.bin/newsyslog/Makefile
> index 1bb0ce36439..03787a6439b 100644
> --- a/usr.bin/newsyslog/Makefile
> +++ b/usr.bin/newsyslog/Makefile
> @@ -6,4 +6,8 @@ BINOWN= root
>
> MAN= newsyslog.8
>
> +CFLAGS += -DCOMPRESS='"/usr/local/bin/xz"'
> +CFLAGS += -DCOMPRESS_FORCE='"-f9e"'
> +CFLAGS += -DCOMPRESS_POSTFIX='".xz"'
> +
> .include <bsd.prog.mk>
> diff --git a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
> index 066167151ca..7d3a959ad90 100644
> --- a/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
> +++ b/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
> @@ -73,8 +73,15 @@
>
> #define CONF "/etc/newsyslog.conf"
> #define PIDFILE "/var/run/syslog.pid"
> +#ifndef COMPRESS
> #define COMPRESS "/usr/bin/gzip"
> +#endif
> +#ifndef COMPRESS_FORCE
> +#define COMPRESS_FORCE "-f"
> +#endif
> +#ifndef COMPRESS_POSTFIX
> #define COMPRESS_POSTFIX ".gz"
> +#endif
> #define STATS_DIR "/var/run"
> #define SENDMAIL "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
>
> @@ -925,7 +932,7 @@ compress_log(struct conf_entry *ent)
> if (pid == -1) {
> err(1, "fork");
> } else if (pid == 0) {
> - (void)execl(COMPRESS, base, "-f", tmp, (char *)NULL);
> + (void)execl(COMPRESS, base, COMPRESS_FORCE, tmp, (char *)NULL);
> warn(COMPRESS);
> _exit(1);
> }
> --
> Todd Fries .. t...@fries.net
>
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