On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:49:18PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

El 11/11/10 13:46, Michael Schroeder escribió:

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:28:11PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

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I have been playing around with newer, multithreaded implementations of bzip2 and gzip and is my impression that we need to provide "update-alternatives" to them, so users are able to select their favorite tool.

Is "update-alternatives" really neccessary? Wouldn't different packages be sufficient?

I believe it is, as there are tons of scripts/tools that refer bzip2 or gzip with full paths. :-|

My question was more like: do you really need to have both the fast and the slow bzip2 installed in your system? You could also have a "fastbzip2" package that also contains /usr/bin/bzip2 and conflicts with bzip2. Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Schroeder mls@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF Markus Rex, HRB 16746 AG Nuernberg main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Hi; On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Michael Schroeder wrote:

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:28:11PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

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I have been playing around with newer, multithreaded implementations of bzip2 and gzip and is my impression that we need to provide "update-alternatives" to them, so users are able to select their favorite tool.

Is "update-alternatives" really neccessary? Wouldn't different packages be sufficient?

update-alternatives would allow seamlessly change between pbzip2/bzip2 so that you don't have to modify your existing scripts. Regards, ismail -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

El 11/11/10 19:14, Stefan Seyfried escribió:

Do they create identical compressed files?

apparently, no BUT they are drop in replacements, the files can be used with regular bzip2 or gzip. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

* İsmail Dönmez [11-11-10 17:37]:

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

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El 11/11/10 19:14, Stefan Seyfried escribió:

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Do they create identical compressed files?

apparently, no BUT they are drop in replacements, the files can be used with regular bzip2 or gzip.

AFAIK pbzip2 _does_ produce identical files compared to bzip2.

Not according to the included README. Not "identical" but 100% compatable. The same only different :^). Why not have the pbzip2 package replace bzip2? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org