From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 6:31:52 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 B915B37B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 06:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABD943E65 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 06:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g84DVmLu030218 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:31:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g84DVmFI030215; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:31:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading pkgtools References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 04 Sep 2002 09:31:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44ptvtop8b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 tom worster writes: > i was setting up a machine with a new install from the 4.6.2 iso but when i > got to installing packages i noticed that pkg_add -r is now incompatible > with the new .gbz package format on the ftp site. > > how-to upgrade pkgtools? Several possible methods: 1) Use the package from 4.6. 2) Use the port instead of a package. 3) Download the new package, uncompress it with bzip2, and re-compress it with gzip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message