Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists? | Date | 12 Dec 1997 11:09:06 GMT |
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Followup to: <199712121000.LAA00361@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> By author: Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Yeah, but when one converts everything to different format, especially one > > which unlike gunzip, is not extermely popular and not used for years, > > I would expect to find those bzip2 utitiles on, say, > > linux.kernel.org:/pub/linux/util in tar or tgz format. > > A fairly recent copy of bzip can be found on > ftp.cygnus.com:/pub/egcs/infrastructure/bzip2-0.1pl2.tar.gz > and all other egcs mirrors. > > Please note that gcc 2.7.2 is reported to miscompile bzip. I can > confirm this report; I could not unpack egcs 1.0 with a bzip compiled > with either 2.7.2 or egcs. Other reports indicate that reducing the > optimization helps. > > In any case, I think it is up to the maintainers of ftp.kernel.org > to decide on distribution formats. If somebody does not like the > packaging, she can always offer an automated or manual service that > does the repackaging. >
As far as the program bzip2 goes, I won't deal with the distribution of it unless the maintainer of it asks me for a site, in which case I'd be happy to provide a site, or if there is an "official" site I can certainly mirror it, but as it is right now I don't have either.
I have started providing .bz2 files by virtue of an auto-conversion script just because it has been reasonably frequently requested, and *at the moment* we have enough disk space to accommodate the request.
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