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Old 02-19-2008, 11:57 AM
harston
 
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Default Re: Upgrade Slackware tgz/txt to tbz2/txt

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:05:05 +0000, Joaco wrote:
> I sure wish if in a future Slackware, the default Slackware archive
> format were upgraded to tbz2 from the current tgz.
>
> Package content has grown so much, that most stuff I see in the Linux
> community is being repackaged using bzip2, rather than the old gzip.
>
> Sure save a lot of space grief if the pkgtool utilities were modified to
> support both formats.


I start to rewriting pkgtools for using tbz2 format for my own usage. At
this moment i have too many other work, but soon i'll ssend link to it.

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