On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:10:59 +0200 (CEST) Eric Hameleers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Darrell Anderson wrote: > > > When 13.0 is released, will the slackbuilds.org build scripts continue > > supporting the older tgz format, the newer txz format, or the option to use > > either? > > > > Thanks. > > > > P.S. I'm not a member of the list. > > > > Darrell Anderson > > http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/ > > It's really quite simple Darrell: > > We are a site that hosts SlackBuild scripts, not packages. It is not about > supporting any particular package format. If you want to use the old .tgz > packages, then by all means edit the last line of the script and change the > extension of the package which is going to be created. These scripts are not > set in concrete. > > When we start adding scripts for Slackware 13.0 in our repository, you can > expect that they will (or should) support *all* of Slackware 13.0's features > - which includes the new package formats. When we sign off a script after our > internal QA round we will have tested it on a full install of Slackware. > > Regards, Eric >
To clarify, are we going to be building .tgz or .txz by default? I'm in favour of .tgz because they'll archive faster, and disk space if fairly cheap, but I don't really mind either way. -- TimP [http://blog.timp.com.au]
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