Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/news68k/floppies/ramdisk
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 03/26/2004 20:51:03 
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:

> hmmm i'd say no in general [*]; we support building .bz2 versions
> of packages and we should do it for base - it _has_ been the plan
> to switch to bz2 distros hasn't it?  just never done?  :-)

Has it? bz2 is really, really, really slow on our older architectures,
compared to gzip.

        - Nathan