From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 14:32:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C788616A4CE; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:32:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A5143D09; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:32:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ljwu@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:32:41 -0500 Message-ID: From: Loh John Wu To: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:32:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: support for .tgz packages on 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:32:45 -0000 Hello, It seems on 5.x that the support for .tgz packages is limited. You can do a pkg_add for a local .tgz file but pkg_add -r or pkg_add with a URL (i.e. ftp://) path specifiedwould not work because it automatically assumes the packages are of the .tbz variety and tries to uncompress it as a bzip file. I was just wondering if there was a plan/timeline to add full support for .tgz packages because in the code, there are comments about adding support for tgz files. /* XXX: need to handle .tgz also */. Also has anyone modified the code on their system to support .tgz packages? Thanks in advance, John