From: minima <minima>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:58:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: remove Compress::Zlib
X-Git-Tag: PRE-1-52~147
X-Git-Url: http://dxcluster.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bbed459bfb3fdba0379fed67c324539338c84d0e;p=spider.git

remove Compress::Zlib
---

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 0524e54b..2f6b6aac 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ to :-
 1. download the database at http://www.dxcluster.org/download/usdbraw.gz 
 2. save it somewhere (/tmp, anywhere).
 3. Decompress it using your favorite program (gunzip / winzip) [call it
-   usdbraw if winzip).
+   usdbraw if winzip]{BE WARNED, some browsers may decompress it on the
+   fly for you, you can tell; if it is 5Mb it is compressed - 16Mb not}.
 4. remove any /spider/data/user.v1 files lying around (at least for this
    first time.
 5. cd /spider/perl
@@ -14,7 +15,9 @@ to :-
 7. Wait, I suggest some cups of tea are in order.
 8. Wait a bit more.
 
-You will be able do this while the node is running. There is a 
+You don't need Compress::Zlib anymore, I assumed it was universal.
+
+You will be able do this while the node is running somewhen. There is a 
 planned method of keeping the US DB up to date with smaller (ie < 15Mb) patch
 files once a week but you will have to wait a bit for the code to bed down 
 first. You can filter on routes, spots and announces using 'call_state' or
@@ -24,7 +27,7 @@ updated (which may help...).
 Once you have run the create_usdb.pl you will need to restart.
 
 If you don't need this, then don't run create_usdb.pl it will simply be
-a waste of time. The run-time version is 24Mb and has 840,000 odd entries
+a waste of time. The run-time version is 30Mb and has 840,000 odd entries
 in it. This does not replace or supplant sh/qrz (sorry Charlie [who put me
 up to this]). 
 
diff --git a/perl/USDB.pm b/perl/USDB.pm
index d5ac1d8a..14f9fc2e 100644
--- a/perl/USDB.pm
+++ b/perl/USDB.pm
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ use DXVars;
 use DB_File;
 use File::Copy;
 use DXDebug;
-use Compress::Zlib;
+#use Compress::Zlib;
 
 use vars qw($VERSION $BRANCH);
 $VERSION = sprintf( "%d.%03d", q$Revision$ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/ );