Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO 6.0 help please

[John B <joh...@gm...>]

I just saw that Absolute Linux, another Slackware derivative, just 
released their 12.2.5 version, based off slackware64-current and using 
all txz packages. According to the Distrowatch announcement, they were 
able to get a lot more onto a single ISO because of the switch to the 
txz format.

The Distrowatch blurb also mentioned that they've modified pcmanfm and 
Rox-Filer so that they can handle the txz packages. Maybe it might be 
worth it for us to "poach" their patches. ;-)

John

M0E Lnx wrote:
>
> I still think we should consider recompressing our packages to the new 
> lzma format if it offers better compression advantages. It is good 
> that it supports our current pkg format, this is goog for 
> compatibility w/ our current online repos, but I think the iso still 
> needs to be re-compressed
>
>> On Jun 6, 2009 10:45 PM, "Robert Lange" <vec...@ya... 
>> <mailto:vec...@ya...>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>> First of all my sincere thanks to you all for joining in here on a 
>> very important part of VectorLinux, the SOHO project. We really 
>> haven't utilized this mailing list as much as we should as it gives 
>> us all a record of whats going on and who has done what. I think we 
>> need to push to get more people to join the list and as a result get 
>> more people involved in some area of development. I think JohnB 
>> cleared the confusion on the new slackware package format and it 
>> looks like we can safely jump to the new package tools without having 
>> to rebuild all of the existing tlz packages. Now the biggest hurtle 
>> is to come up with a sane package list for SOHO that can fit on a 700 
>> mb CD. I think taking out all of xfce its depends and a lot of fonts 
>> is a start then see how much gnome we really need for the remaining 
>> gtk apps we use is a start. MOE's new installer is based on a package 
>> install so no more bulks which means we will have to examine our vl 
>> specific packages
>>  and maybe create some new ones to accomodate this change (which i 
>> think is good in the long run) Again thanks to all for taking time 
>> out of your busy lives to get this task accomplished!!!!
>>
>> Cheers, Vec Robert Lange vec...@ya... <mailto:vec...@ya...>
>>
>> http://www.vectorlinux.com
>>
>>
>> --- On Sat, 6/6/09, John B <joh...@gm... 
>> <mailto:joh...@gm...>> wrote:
>>
>> > From: John B <joh...@gm... <mailto:joh...@gm...>>
>> > Subject: Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO 6.0 help please
>> > To: "Vector Linux developer's list" 
>> <vec...@li... 
>> <mailto:vec...@li...>>
>> > Received: Saturday, June 6, 2009, 10:47 PM
>>
>> > All, > > I went to the slackware-64current directory and built tar, 
>> > xzutils and > the slackwar...
>>
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel
>>
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