Re: 9.1 install comments

Kamil Rytarowski <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:21:49 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 21.10.2020 13:25, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Will remove the whole section though, new releases are not 9.0 anymore.
> 
>>      The amd64 binary distribution sets are distributed as
>>      gzipped tar files named with the extension .tar.xz (e.g.,
>>      base.tar.xz).
>>
>> Are they gzipped or xzed?
> 
> Good point, what is the proper word? There are tons of references to "gzipped"
> in the install docs, independend of the actually used format - we need to make
> that a variable.
> 
> They can be extracted with "tar xzf $file" on newer NetBSD, so many
> users will not notice the difference.
> 

Archived, compressed or tarballed-compressed.

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