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[technosaurus]

I have patched petget to use xz compressed files - using the extension .pxt to differentiate them (it isn't really that necessary to have a separate extension, but I didn't want users without the patch to be befuddled to why their pet wouldn't install)

Smaller packages will reduce bandwidth usage and server space, shorten download times and still work as fast as the gzip style pet packages. (creating the pet takes slightly longer but nowhere near bzip times)

Still not 100% complete - need to add a mime type etc... for .pxt so that petget automatically handles them.

to test it the packages are in:
http://www.puppylinux.asia/members/T/444/ puppy:linux

You will probably need the tar and xz pet as well unless you have the latest stable versions of both (not included in any Puppy yet)
their are standard pets as well for comparison

[technosaurus]

Here is a patch for woof - since that is the only place you can get this (4.3) version of petget

to apply patches see this tutorial
http://stephenjungels.com/jungels.net/articles/diff-patch-ten-minutes.html