Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:26:43 -0500 From: Loh John Wu <ljwu@sandvine.com> To: "'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: how to get freeBSD 5.1 pkg_add to install .tgz files Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853370283A45A@mail.sandvine.com>
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Hello, This is my first time using FreeBSD 5.1 and I noticed that pkg_add has changed in that it requires a bzip2 file? Does it not support gzip files anymore? TPC-C3-27# pkg_add -r -v ftp://fbsd-ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All/bash-2.05a.tgz looking up fbsd-ftp connecting to fbsd-ftp:21 setting passive mode opening data connection initiating transfer Fetching ftp://fbsd-ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All/bash-2.05a. tgz...bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. tar: Child died with signal 13 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Broken pipe I read through the pkg_add man pages on 5.1 but I'm unable to find an option that can let me specify the zip method for the package. pkg_create allows you to specify which type of zip utility you want to use and it says "Currently pkg_create recognizes the following suffixes: .tbz, .tgz and .tar." so I'm mystified about why the 5.1 pkg_add is complaining about a .tgz package? So I'm wondeirng how can I get pkg_add to work with the old tgz-style packages? Also, the man pages for pkg_add on 5.1 has this link which doesn't work (i.e. file not on ftp server) "ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/shells/bash-1.14.7.tbz)." Thanks in advance, John
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