On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 09:23, Dale Blount <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was going to respond to this thread and say we should keep a small >> subset of packages in tar.gz format for things like this. Most of them >> happen to be mine, but: >> * pacman >> * libarchive >> * libfetch >> * zlib ? >> * glibc ? >> * bash ? > > +1. At some point pacman is going to need a glibc update to work and > not being able to install glibc because it's a xz is an issue. We > should probably add a versioned glibc to pacman's depends so someone > doesn't end up upgrading pacman and not being able to run it because > glibc didn't get updated as well. > > Dale > > +1 to everything here. Will it work if we set PKGEXT in the PKGBUILD itself with a comment so that it overrides makepkg.conf?
- [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially? Pierre Schmitz
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officiall... Giovanni Scafora
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz offic... Thomas Bächler
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officiall... Dale Blount
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz offic... Dan McGee
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz o... Dale Blount
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.... Thomas Bächler
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg... Daenyth Blank
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.... Daenyth Blank
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz o... Pierre Schmitz
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.... Allan McRae
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg... Pierre Schmitz
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to... Dan McGee
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] Moving to pkg.t... Giovanni Scafora
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-general] Moving to pkg.t... Giovanni Scafora
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officiall... Pierre Schmitz
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officiall... Pierre Schmitz
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz offic... Pierre Schmitz
- Re: [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz o... Allan McRae
