Re: Packages

[David Rhodus <sdrhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:21:30 +0200, Oliver Eikemeier
<eikemeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Well, I guess I don't have to rebuild the set but I would have to
write a little script to re setup the Latest directory structure.
Since the package set is, at least in my mind, already out of date
I'll just start building a new one vers working on saving a few MB's
of space for this data set.

-- 
                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>