Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO 6.0 help please

[paul m. <pa...@wa...>]

Zenwalk has also moved to the new pkgtools. There have been a few 
problems in doing so - Thunar right-click installs still don't work 
correctly as an example. Not to mention that a svn version of MC has 
been used, which is badly broken in a couple of important areas. Other 
than that, the drop in package size is very useful.

I'm happy to build some packages, do some testing. My experience level 
building KDE stuff is very small, but I guess I can learn....

paul.

John B wrote:
> 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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