From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 12:22:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D3616A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:22:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8580943F75 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:22:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ljwu@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:22:44 -0500 Message-ID: From: Loh John Wu To: 'Kris Kennaway' Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:22:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" cc: "'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: how to get freeBSD 5.1 pkg_add to install .tgz files X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:22:46 -0000 Well I had a 4.x system and I want to move to a 5.1 system. I had some ports and packages that were on my 4.x system that I want on the 5.1 one. I thought ports were never versioned? Is there a split between the 4.x ports and the 5.1 ports? I tried to look for some explanation about the differences between a 5.1 port and a 4.x port but couldn't find any.... Does 5.1 not support tgz packages? Like I have a verison of bash on my 4.x system that I wanted to put on 5.1 so I just did a pkg_ad on the new system but fails out. I have also created some custom packages (tarballs with the pkg extras) for my 4.x system which were gzipped. Do I need to rebuild to packages to use bzip2 for them to be usable on a 5.1 system? What is the recommended method of putting new packages/ports on a 5.1 system? Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@obsecurity.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:52 PM To: Loh John Wu Cc: 'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: how to get freeBSD 5.1 pkg_add to install .tgz files On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:26:43AM -0500, Loh John Wu wrote: > 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? A better question is why are you trying to add 4.x packages on your 5.x box? Kris