On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 10:14 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > >From devel/libjpeg.spec: > > > > Source0: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.bz2 > > > > AFAICT this file is non-existent, should be .gz instead. > > > > Now I would normally file a bug about this, but I want to check first > > if this is a genuine bug, or some sort of RPM or Fedora Makefile > > trickery, like it automatically generates a bzip file or something. > > Can someone tell me? > > For a while, Red Hat was fetching source and recompressing it to bz2 to > gain a little space. I don't think anybody is doing it now, but this > may be a remnant from that time (since the JPEG reference source hasn't > changed in a long time). Almost certainly the case. It mattered when we needed to keep the cd set size down so that we could keep production costs at a minimum and not lose money on the box set :-) > I would say that at this point it would be good to switch back to the > original (pristine) source; saving a few K by recompressing isn't worth > it. Yeah, probably true also Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
