From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 7 11:52:19 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 56ECB37B400 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts19.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9021043E65 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from myron.plichota@sympatico.ca) Received: from sympatico.ca ([209.226.108.2]) by tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020907185211.DEGV6081.tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca>; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 14:52:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3D7A4AD8.338CE695@sympatico.ca> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 14:52:08 -0400 From: Myron Plichota X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-26mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Package compression format changed References: <3D768C6A.A6DA1EA7@sympatico.ca> <20020906200203.GC77399@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 After RTFMing and browsing local doc and the main ftp site release tree I wrote a simple script ("getme") which has worked with no problems so far. "pkg_add ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.6.2-release/Latest/$1.tgz" Example usage: "getme acroread5" Ahhh, now I can continue evangelizing FreeBSD to all my friends and relations. BTW I installed what's advertised to be 4.6.2 via FTP over a DHCP cable modem on Aug 26 and have been able to adapt it to a PPPoE DSL connection thanks to the excellent handbook doc. It would be great to expand sysinstall's protocol suite to include PPPoE. This would eliminate having to physically move DSL-connected boxen to cable modem equipped premises during upgrades, and manually tweak and untweak /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, /etc/rc.conf, /etc/resolv.conf, and /etc/hosts by hand. This short list is all I am aware of and quite managable in hindsight, but was a bit scary for a newbie like me to mess with at first. Myron Plichota To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message