From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 11:38:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22B1106566B for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eesimorp@yahoo.com) Received: from nm24-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (nm24-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com [98.139.91.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABB478FC17 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.91.70] by nm24.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Sep 2011 11:25:12 -0000 Received: from [98.139.91.37] by tm10.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Sep 2011 11:25:12 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1037.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Sep 2011 11:25:12 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 638934.76168.bm@omp1037.mail.sp2.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 74634 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Sep 2011 11:25:12 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1316777112; bh=cibArZDgoLjzROPSH/hyQYMtM6qx8UW7XVqnVDEbJYE=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=joepKxdU116e4kjMJQGE/4dhXbkxqHapkV5Wwt4qbcpXi/POfvaBlHM4/VSoxczrk7ympeTiz8sgij2OcJxSIzCsAF0w2hlxXrmfnn6m4WhmH7UY0V5pjZMJ/X4PPlYWSZtZnUJh+YnA1iMobtOvuCpZm50YHzmAIRVLgZd4WXo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=l0vtBeV1GGu67wmHBciSrOUs0cHkAlIY49DmuHkss9jPJrxDOfxE6dxrY4opFW2M7IjLRfdI6NHqFiZnrKmzMtCI0MafemE1xV9gVbsCGC4P2lJBtWX46OOYMnJvC5VymhaNOI4b7eeGHBW0fAkXeG5bZuvQzFfa+jlCJhSuS4A=; X-YMail-OSG: 1yRtLRQVM1lt2hoRF5c70VN8cACNNnEpY8q2juymmy_rA73 LJ3N51UMNk3v6CJ4D_Gn6piEsx4T2qmbLRObXT79Jm3cPRUxDZcWXGe7oSih EcSfDXnwhTxiW0eNAAmRerJRV3LmbpGFPLlHoheTruC_DMeP4LJfTz2mrwxh aV5D0M8BA1eQDpvX6NidMJS8L0Q9VtBBflNQ3hURZdyBg0iBhhZG_oS8KeBW zpOemwCzQUyfUGyP0gKxq6gL9r_zD8wJWlkOwRXbKTsjFmOPQ8uJYMHhsPoW ALSDppF0c_E9aRXXQR_QAAzEo7vR5g4.gFxGm3h7eLEp6ESIeoQ.5OgjOuFn 9U5SpfdkW2jebtWrlLlFmibw5xxlCg6fOt53nWB3QuBnw.VowpcKjzoUjd1T azNKiyUcB1CsXzsDupYbFIWuCCMXPlEB3vQY4KngjPsjoQh7l4RmXqJvvUex 6.hKadS7qv8x6KdX9r8zOiZlKWezOZDVUnspVKgE91K6D3w8fWxAWMFdm2rf 8C4tNCpiRrregENbnekAhD7bmeRR0GxWp Received: from [219.93.13.232] by web111802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:25:12 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/14.0.5 YahooMailWebService/0.8.114.317681 Message-ID: <1316777112.68517.YahooMailClassic@web111802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:25:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Esimorp E To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Overwrite bsd tar X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:38:09 -0000 Dear all, I tried installing GridFTP on Freebsd, had errors which a user group said is due to bsd tar and I downloaded and installed Gnu tar which is required but the command 'tar --version' still show bsd tar as the default. Tried using package and encountered error as shown below. [prom@pcbsd-2112] ~> tar --version bsdtar 2.7.0 - libarchive 2.7.0 [prom@pcbsd-2112] ~> su Password: [prom@pcbsd-2112] /home/prom# pkg_add -r tar Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/tar.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/tar.tbz' by URL I would be grateful if anyone could help me out on how to overwrite bsd tar with Gnu tar. Best Regards, Morp.