Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:36:32 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Mark Miller <joup@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add-- tbz vs. tgz Message-ID: <20020928203632.GC1933@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020928113924.Q33507-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> References: <20020928113924.Q33507-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>
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On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:14:03PM -0700, Mark Miller wrote:
> I'm one of the unfortunate few who upgraded pkg_install just in time for
> the announcement that packages are going BACK to tgz format. Is there an
> environmental variable or some other knob that will tell pkg_add to look
> for both .tgz and .tbz? Or at least something that will keep me from
> recompiling it again?
All the 4-stable packages on the ftp sites should have been replaced
by the .tgz versions for RC2 now. I guess the only .tbz packages
you're going to find will be ones for 5-CURRENT, and they're no good
to you.
However, you could try downloading the .tgz packages from the ftp
sites, and recompressing them:
fetch fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/foo.tgz
gzcat foo.tgz | bzip2 -c > foo.tbz
pkg_add foo.tbz
Cheers,
Matthew
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