On 2017-12-05 20:17, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> Ping.  Please revert this change.  If you want zstd to behave this
> way, pursue it upstream first.
> 
> Thanks,
> Conrad
> 
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Conrad Meyer <c...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Please revert this change.
>>
>> First, it introduces the POLA-violating behavior that zstdcat deletes
>> its source files.  This is not how zcat/bzcat behaves.
>>
>> Second, it introduces a needless behavioral difference between FreeBSD
>> zstd and the rest of the world's zstd.  The zstd documentation we ship
>> continues to claim that zstd preserves source files by default, yet
>> this change makes that documentation exactly backwards.  While we can
>> change FreeBSD's documentation to accommodate the change, we can't
>> change Google results.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Conrad
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Author: bapt
>>> Date: Sat Apr 15 20:15:44 2017
>>> New Revision: 316980
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316980
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   Change some default to make zstd a dropin replacement for gzip,bzip etc
>>>   in most cases
>>>
>>>   Changes ares:
>>>   - quiet by default
>>>   - remove the source files one compression completion by default
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>>   head/contrib/zstd/programs/fileio.c
>>>   head/contrib/zstd/programs/zstdcli.c
>>>
>>> Modified: head/contrib/zstd/programs/fileio.c
>>> ==============================================================================
>>> --- head/contrib/zstd/programs/fileio.c Sat Apr 15 20:06:24 2017        
>>> (r316979)
>>> +++ head/contrib/zstd/programs/fileio.c Sat Apr 15 20:15:44 2017        
>>> (r316980)
>>> @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static U32 g_dictIDFlag = 1;
>>>  void FIO_setDictIDFlag(unsigned dictIDFlag) { g_dictIDFlag = dictIDFlag; }
>>>  static U32 g_checksumFlag = 1;
>>>  void FIO_setChecksumFlag(unsigned checksumFlag) { g_checksumFlag = 
>>> checksumFlag; }
>>> -static U32 g_removeSrcFile = 0;
>>> +static U32 g_removeSrcFile = 1;
>>>  void FIO_setRemoveSrcFile(unsigned flag) { g_removeSrcFile = (flag>0); }
>>>  static U32 g_memLimit = 0;
>>>  void FIO_setMemLimit(unsigned memLimit) { g_memLimit = memLimit; }
>>>
>>> Modified: head/contrib/zstd/programs/zstdcli.c
>>> ==============================================================================
>>> --- head/contrib/zstd/programs/zstdcli.c        Sat Apr 15 20:06:24 2017    
>>>     (r316979)
>>> +++ head/contrib/zstd/programs/zstdcli.c        Sat Apr 15 20:15:44 2017    
>>>     (r316980)
>>> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
>>>  #define MB *(1 <<20)
>>>  #define GB *(1U<<30)
>>>
>>> -#define DEFAULT_DISPLAY_LEVEL 2
>>> +#define DEFAULT_DISPLAY_LEVEL 1
>>>
>>>  static const char*    g_defaultDictName = "dictionary";
>>>  static const unsigned g_defaultMaxDictSize = 110 KB;
>>>
> 

Upstream recommends we create an additional hardlink, called 'zz' (like
xz but zstd), to do such compatibility, and keep 'zstd' the same as zstd
on every other distro.

-- 
Allan Jude

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