Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO 6.0 help please

[uel a. <ue...@gm...>]

>From what I understand the compression is not better but the error detection
is.
moving to packages we will lose more space on the iso compared to bulks.
this is because of some redundancy in packages and the "-9" compression we
have been using in the bulks.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Rodrigo Bistolfi <rbi...@gm...>wrote:

> We surelly can use better compression in SOHO if it is available.
> However it is my understanding that the compression is similar in xz
> and lz. I would like to see the new package tools in SOHO but wouldnt
> be urgent if there is no better compression rates.
>
> 2009/6/7 M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...>:
> > 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...> 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...
> >
> > http://www.vectorlinux.com
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 6/6/09, John B <joh...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> >> From: John B <joh...@gm...>
> >> Subject: Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO 6.0 help please
> >> To: "Vector Linux developer's list"
> >> <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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