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Re: Preferring .gz with pkgin



* On 2021-10-12 at 09:28 BST, Jonathan Perkin wrote:

* On 2021-10-12 at 01:34 BST, John Klos wrote:

It has been asked on port-amiga@ and brought up elsewhere:

https://github.com/NetBSDfr/pkgin/issues/112

whether we can add a flag or another way to tell pkgin to prefer a certain prefix over others for slower machines, or for machines with less memory when we start to use xz.

Thoughts or objections?

Nia asked about this on IRC this morning, I said I'd take a look at it, sounds reasonable to me.

While I have a captive audience, would anyone object to just dumping bz2 at this point? Seems like the worst of all worlds.

Sorry, I hadn't realised that the default pbulk still didn't produce pkg_summary.xz files (I've been doing this for Joyent packages since 2015), so I'll leave bzip2 alone for now.

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