Timothy Pollard wrote:
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.
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Scripts doesn't gain anything from the new format since the space and
bandwidth doesn't matter on SlackBuilds. (and i can't see that the few
sources that SBo host would use the new compression format due to
backward capability since then they would need to have them twice on the
server)
And since the only difference is .txz or .tgz in the builds then you can
use what you want when you build them.
So i don't find this very important and i don't think that the SBo team
decided yet but as far as i care .tgz will still be fine.
Thats my 2cents
/Nille
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