On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > as people keep asking me about this it a news item seems still to be a > good > idea. > If you want to compress your packages with the new format change the > "PKGEXT" variable in the makepkg.conf of your build environment to > '.pkg.tar.xz'. Our tools like dbscripts, devtools, namcap and of course > pacman are able to process these packages. If you use any custom scripts > which match "*.pkg.tar.gz" files, make sure to change the pattern to > "*.pkg.tar.*". > > To allow a smooth update for older installations pacman, > pacman-mirrorlist, libarchive, libfetch and xz-utils are kept in gz format. > (This is achieved by adding "PKGEXT='.pkg.tat.gz'" to their PKGBUILDs) > --
Seems good, I guess the only thing I would add is something like: "At this time, all Developers and Trusted Users are strongly encouraged to switch to xz format"
