From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 11:22:32 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 D49D237B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5284643E42 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BBC5666B28; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:22:29 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Guido Van Hoecke Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help with pkg_add Message-ID: <20020927182229.GH56586@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1033087815.609c1480TapRoot420@myrealbox.com> <3D940ECB.2020503@VanHoecke.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X+8siUETKMkW99st" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D940ECB.2020503@VanHoecke.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --X+8siUETKMkW99st Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:54:51AM +0200, Guido Van Hoecke wrote: > TapRoot420 wrote: > >Hello, I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 DP1 and everything is great with the= =20 > >system except i cant get pkg_add to work via ftp. I am trying to install= =20 > >the current afterstep package from the offical freebsd ftp server. > >=20 > >Here is what i am trying per the handbook.=20 > > > ># pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-CURRENT/p > >ackages/afterstep/afterstep-1.8.11.tbz > >Fetching=20 > >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-CURRENT/packages/af > >terstep/afterstep-1.8.11.tbz... >=20 > As mentionned earlier on this list, the 'tbz' format is the culprit.=20 > AFAIK, switchover to this format is being rolled back. It's only being rolled back for 4.x-STABLE. If you're using 5.0-DP1, you should really be using the 5.0-DP1 packages: many newer packages will not work properly since they were built for a newer version of 5.0-CURRENT, and as you've noticed 5.0-DP1's pkg_add -r can't handle fetching .tbz packages (this support came later). kris --X+8siUETKMkW99st Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9lKHkWry0BWjoQKURAoFBAKDRmzu2jQjuBJ2/rDw9qN+ZyRbYAQCfc4d6 b2Vx2emgBk19n82UDbt3QXU= =4Qhi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X+8siUETKMkW99st-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message