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Date:      Mon, 09 Sep 2002 14:46:47 -0500
From:      "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
To:        Jerry Lundy <pm-jwlundy@aafes.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tbz vs. tgz
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20020909144647.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020909143944.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net>
References:  <3D7CF27A.75728194@aafes.com>

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At 02:39 PM 9.9.2002 -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
>At 02:11 PM 9.9.2002 -0500, Jerry Lundy wrote:
>>Greetings.
>>
>>The change of package format from .tgz to .tbz has created a furor in my
>>office.  Our pkg_add quit working, apparently due to the cutover. (I
>>would have assumed that a migration would be more appropriate.)
>>
>>Question: How do we make pkg_add work again?
>>
>>Better idea: Can freebsd.org make pkg_add work again?
>>
>>Thanks,
>> 
>>Jerry W. Lundy, CISSP                      <jwlundy@aafes.com>
>>AAFES Contractor: The Greentree Group      214-312-6638
>>
>
>Wonder if putting this in your /etc/make.conf file would help for now:
># PKG_SUFX=.tgz (...or whatever ... I don't pkg_add much, so haven't tried
>this)
>
>Best regards,
>Jack L. Stone,
>Administrator
>
>SageOne Net
>http://www.sage-one.net
>jackstone@sage-one.net
>

...eh... I guess that would be PKG_SUFX=.tbz rather than PKG_SUFX=.tgz (see
what & if it works....)

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

SageOne Net
http://www.sage-one.net
jackstone@sage-one.net

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