On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 10:14 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones rjones@redhat.com 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