Hi, Juergen came up with a patch that lets users choose what compression scheme to use for packages created by pkgmk. Supported compression algorithms are gzip, bzip2 and xz. I now extended the patch with some text for the pkgmk.conf manpage and renamed PKGMK_COMPRESS_EXT to PKGMK_COMPRESS_MODE (that feels like a better fit to me). To test this patch, you need pkgadd/pkginfo from pkgutils.git (master branch). Otherwise you won't be able to generate footprints/add/etc packages that use bzip2/xz. Please review the patch and if possible, test this new feature. Let me know what you think/find. Thanks, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?