On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:36:36PM -0500, leam wrote:
   > Last week I did an install from a solaris platform to another disk in 
   > the same box. One thing that struck me as odd was that miniroot.fs was a 
   > tgz file, that is, gzip'd. Until Solaris 9, I don't think gzip came with 
   > Solaris, and it is just one more step to work around.
   > 
   > Is there any reason to not leave it as non-gzip'd, or use compress? I 
   > realize gzip is probably a better compression agent, but we're just 
   > adding one more step in the process.
   > 
   
   gzip is 'de-facto' standard utility, and solaris9 is just another prove
   of it. Look on any ftp site - everything is gzipped. If you use
   a machine these days you'll have gzip there. So I doubt there will be
   demand for not-gzipped miniroot.fs.


while i pretty much agree i will note that we used to ship
sunos4 versions of gnutar and gzip...



.mrg.