From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 6 12:14:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCE337B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eurus.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45BA43E42 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leth@primus.ca) Received: from dialin-167-223.tor.primus.ca ([216.254.167.223]) by eurus.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 17nOYS-0007Gx-0A; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:14:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:14:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt X-X-Sender: leth@lethargic.dyndns.org To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Kris Kennaway , Branson Matheson Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Package compression format changed In-Reply-To: <20020906164357.GB71908@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20020906151107.Y7910-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:03:05AM -0400, Branson Matheson wrote: > > At the request of the release engineers the default package > > compression scheme has been changed from gzipped tarball to bzip2ed > > tarball. The package tools have been updated to deal with the new > > format (older package tools only had partial support for .tbz > > packages). > > > > Additionally, the ports collection packages distributed via the FTP > > site have been switched to .tbz, so if you are a regular user of > > these > > packages you will need to update and rebuild your package tools > > (e.g. by doing a complete upgrade). > > > > I don't suppose anyone considered .. say.. upgrading the pkg_* binaries > > to understand this and look for it .. say.. BEFORE YOU FORCED US ALL TO > > UPGRADE?!!? > > > > This was a very ill chosen decision. I can now no longer install ANY > > packages until I upgrade my -STABLE boxen?!?! What idiocy is this? I > > agree the change should have been made.. but change the binaries FIRST > > at say RELEASE .. give it time for everyone to absorb the changes.. and > > then change the packages. Oh you say.. you can just d/l the packages > > and then install them from local disk. Great.. lets talk about > > dependancies.. That isn't going to be frustrating.. uh uh.. no way. > > The change is being made for 4.7-RELEASE, which is now in the > prerelease cycle. The release engineers wanted to use .tbz packages > for 4.7, so we had to do it now. Sorry that it inconvenienced you. > Why not make pkg_add(1) understand both .tgz and .tbz? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message