On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:44:41 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> for base-gcc archs we really want to keep the number of ports in the
> build path to gcc low.
> 
> bzip2 currently only depends on dwz (on debug pkgs archs) or nothing,
> so I think that's currently ok, but care will be needed to avoid loops
> building gcc if things change in the future.
> 
> so, really i would advise switching binutils to the tar.gz rather than
> gas to the tar.bz2.

+1.  The space savings are pretty irrelevant.

> On 2025/11/27 15:59, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > They're the same sources, but my builder fetched them twice.
> > bzip is smaller, so use that here.
> > 
> > Revision bump should not be needed, but does not hurt.
> > 
> > Feedback? OK?
> > 
> > diff --git a/devel/gas/Makefile b/devel/gas/Makefile
> > index c80800f2d6f..171ee002609 100644
> > --- a/devel/gas/Makefile
> > +++ b/devel/gas/Makefile
> > @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ COMMENT =		GNU assembler
> >  
> >  # keep version synchronized with devel/binutils
> >  V =			2.45.1
> > +REVISION =		0
> >  DISTNAME =		binutils-$V
> >  PKGNAME =		gas-$V
> >  
> > @@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ PERMIT_PACKAGE =	Yes
> >  WANTLIB +=		c z zstd
> >  
> >  SITES =			${SITE_GNU:=binutils/}
> > +EXTRACT_SUFX =		.tar.bz2
> >  
> >  CONFIGURE_STYLE =	gnu
> >  CONFIGURE_ARGS +=	--disable-ld \
> > diff --git a/devel/gas/distinfo b/devel/gas/distinfo
> > index f7cfd416b0a..1d353e50b60 100644
> > --- a/devel/gas/distinfo
> > +++ b/devel/gas/distinfo
> > @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> > -SHA256 (binutils-2.45.1.tar.gz) = K2OuCtAV6ydVKU8Se/0XnBhJl53Ye26OGnN2lkpDI9w=
> > -SIZE (binutils-2.45.1.tar.gz) = 52703549
> > +SHA256 (binutils-2.45.1.tar.bz2) = hg2t3skIXLQBEnkTb8itKetTPpRG11JK9/UX3RjwAiQ=
> > +SIZE (binutils-2.45.1.tar.bz2) = 39291202
> >