From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 14: 2:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6855137B400; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pgh.nepinc.com (pgh.nepinc.com [66.207.129.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E9D43E3B; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:02:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimd@nepinc.com) Received: from jimslaptop.int (jimslaptop.int [192.100.100.107]) by pgh.nepinc.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8BL2NQ06203; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:02:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jimd@nepinc.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Durham Reply-To: jimd@nepinc.com Organization: NEP Supershooters To: Jerry Lundy , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tbz vs. tgz Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:02:17 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <3D7CF27A.75728194@aafes.com> In-Reply-To: <3D7CF27A.75728194@aafes.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209111702.17620.jimd@nepinc.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 09 September 2002 03:11 pm, Jerry Lundy wrote: > Greetings. > > The change of package format from .tgz to .tbz has created a furor > in my office. Our pkg_add quit working, apparently due to the > cutover. (I would have assumed that a migration would be more > appropriate.) > > Question: How do we make pkg_add work again? > > Better idea: Can freebsd.org make pkg_add work again? I found that not all the ftp sites have converted the packages to .tbz. ftp.de.freebsd.org has .tgz packages (at least in the 4.6.2-RELEASE/packages . -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message