From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 10 20:48:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F641065674 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:48:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966ED8FC14 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7AKm5m1055523 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:48:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C61BAFD.5050004@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:47:57 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Powell References: <4C60C4D9.A6BEE6E@blakemfg.com> <4C60D596.8070405@too1337.com> <4C617BA6.659B26B4@blakemfg.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6C1A1D2F336865C3476CCE55" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox install problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:48:10 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6C1A1D2F336865C3476CCE55 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/08/2010 18:21:25, Michael Powell wrote: > A tar.gz is a source code tarball meant to be compiled via the ports sy= stem.=20 > pkg_add installs precompiled and packaged binary packages. Package file= s=20 > will have a .tbz extension. pkg_add does not operate on source code=20 > tarballs. All pkgs have a .tbz suffix -- true, at least since about 6.0-RELEASE. Not everything with a .tbz suffix is a FreeBSD pkg though. .tbz is short for .tar.bz2, and there are plenty of source tarballs around distributed with a .tbz extension. =2Etgz is similar shorthand for .tar.gz. If you go and look, you can fin= d a bunch of other compression programs applied to tar archives and used for distributing stuff. The best way to tell if what you're looking at is a FreeBSD package is to run pkg_info against it: pkg_info -a foo-1.0.0.tbz Of course, having downloaded the pkg from the packages directory tree on one of the FreeBSD FTP servers is a pretty big hint as well. As is finding it in /usr/ports/packages/All. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enig6C1A1D2F336865C3476CCE55 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEUEARECAAYFAkxhuwUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzX7wCfQ469327zHsK9q1wKRbGBwekj G5IAmMir8kKC6H0eW3ZuEaVW8uECurg= =MxNG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6C1A1D2F336865C3476CCE55--