Subject: Re: font stuff and man pages in distributions
To: None <tech-install@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
List: tech-install
Date: 05/01/1999 15:09:58
On Sat May  1 14:26:43 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
[..]
>  + It seems that some (most?) ports aren't compressing the fonts as much
>    as they could be.  For examples, this is from an arm32 font:
> 
> 	nbftp:X11/fonts/misc 210> ls -l hanglm24.pcf.gz
> 	-r--r--r--  1 simonb  simonb  353568 Apr  4 21:32 hanglm24.pcf.gz
> 	nbftp:X11/fonts/misc 211> zcat hanglm24.pcf.gz | gzip -9 > hanglm24.pcf.gz9
> 	nbftp:X11/fonts/misc 212> ls -l hanglm24.pcf.gz9 
> 	-rw-rw-r--  1 simonb  simonb  347029 May  1 04:54 hanglm24.pcf.gz9
> 
>    I have GZIP=-9 in my environment, but a proper fix would seem to be
>    changing Imake.tmpl from:
> 	#define GzipCmd gzip
>    to
> 	#define GzipCmd gzip -9
>    Any objections to changing this if it works after I "make World" in
>    xsrc?

Note, that we don't use -9 for compressing the manpages in /usr/share/man.

I don't think we need to gain the 2% while using -9.

You can put this line into your site.def if you really need it.

Bernd