Re: Insights from successful, yet painful, install attempt.

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 18:28, Michael van Elst <[email protected]> wrote:
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> [email protected] (John Klos) writes:
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> >> Also, pkgin will use the bz2 pkg_summary, which is very slow to unpack
> >> on 68030. Maybe it'd be best to only provide the gz?
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> >I can't say I know offhand how to tell pkgin to prefer one over the other.
> >I see someone who likes older machines has also brought this up:
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> It searches for .xz, .bz2 and .gz suffixes and takes the first it finds.
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> You either need a configuration for the suffix list or for the file to use.

jperkin has just resolved https://github.com/NetBSDfr/pkgin/issues/112
- so hopefully any pkgin binaries built from now on should default to
.gz on amiga and similar platforms :)

David