Re: Packages

[Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Rhodus wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:20:54 +0200, Oliver Eikemeier
> <eikemeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > David Rhodus wrote:
> > > There is a new set of packages uploaded to gobsd.com. Some of the
> > > larger packages are now complete which there have been some demand for
> > > in past emails. So things like
> > >
> > > pkg_add -r kde # this will install the full version of KDE-3
> > > pkg_add -r gnome2
> > >
> > > now will work just fine.
> > >
> > > A listing of the packages that pkg_add -r uses can be found at
> > > http://gobsd.com/packages/Latest/
> > > and a complete listing of every package available for download can be
> > > viewed at http://gobsd.com/packages/All/
> >
> > How about moving to bzip2 compression?
>
> I can take a look into it for the next build set, though more likely
> the one after the next set of packages as I'm working on a few other
> cool things with different method for packages all together.

Any details? Btw, you don't have to build a new set of packages when 
switching compression algorithms, just recompressing them is sufficient.

-Oliver