Re: git: dfae67d10c3f - main - bsd.port.mk: Use zstandard as default compression for FreeBSD 14+

On 5/3/2022 5:12 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by bapt:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=dfae67d10c3f2b6dbde7d6e3280455cd87f9f15c
> 
> commit dfae67d10c3f2b6dbde7d6e3280455cd87f9f15c
> Author:     Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2022-04-29 14:03:13 +0000
> Commit:     Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2022-05-03 12:04:26 +0000
> 
>      bsd.port.mk: Use zstandard as default compression for FreeBSD 14+
>      
>      The packages are switched from XZ to ZSTD compression, the compression level
>      is set at the maximum possible because it creates packages which are closed
>      in size between XZ and ZSTD, the compression time is close as well,
>      but decompression time is way bigger.
>      
>      Exp-run:        antoine
>      Differential revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35095
> ---
>   Mk/bsd.port.mk | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Please can the symlink generation for this be disabled? It causes 
problems for Poudriere. Everything was stable with the .txz transition 
and now we have .tzst symlinks being created that Poudriere does not 
expect. It does not make sense to have transition symlinks for a new format.

> diff --git a/Mk/bsd.port.mk b/Mk/bsd.port.mk
> index be720a035d87..c2760881ac04 100644
> --- a/Mk/bsd.port.mk
> +++ b/Mk/bsd.port.mk
> @@ -2214,11 +2214,11 @@ PKG_SUFX=	.pkg
>   .    if defined(PKG_NOCOMPRESS)
>   PKG_COMPRESSION_FORMAT?=	tar
>   .    else
> -#.if ${OSVERSION} > 1400000
> -#PKG_COMPRESSION_FORMAT?=	tzst
> -#.else
> +.if ${OSVERSION} > 1400000
> +PKG_COMPRESSION_FORMAT?=	tzst
> +.else
>   PKG_COMPRESSION_FORMAT?=	txz
> -#.endif
> +.endif
>   .    endif
>   
>   # where pkg(8) stores its data


-- 
Bryan Drewery