From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 12:28:00 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 48F8716A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:28:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F2543FA3 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:27:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EBDD366C55; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:27:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:27:58 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Loh John Wu Message-ID: <20031118202758.GA50864@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: "'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org'" cc: 'Kris Kennaway' 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 20:28:00 -0000 --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:22:43PM -0500, Loh John Wu wrote: > 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 t= he > 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.... ports !=3D packages The ports collection is not branched, but that doesn't mean you can use packages built for one version on another version. > Does 5.1 not support tgz packages? I think so. There was some autodetection code in pkg_add, but it didn't work and it was removed. > 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? >=20 > What is the recommended method of putting new packages/ports on a 5.1 > system? Use packages built for 5.1. Kris --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/uoDOWry0BWjoQKURAmQiAJoCc8IMzpIXPZIeoExK1d8mvOcqOwCfUf+k vAAWvs8NJLyU2wSzEFle4Wk= =uw9t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--