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

[Roc Vallès <vallesroc%gmail.com@localhost>]

That's going to be very helpful!

Roc

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 02:49, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 18:28, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > john%ziaspace.com@localhost (John Klos) writes:
> >
> > >> 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?
> >
> > >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:
> >
> > It searches for .xz, .bz2 and .gz suffixes and takes the first it finds.
> >
> > 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