Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:32:38 -0500 From: Loh John Wu <ljwu@sandvine.com> To: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: support for .tgz packages on 5.x Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853370283A65D@mail.sandvine.com>
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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
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