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Date:      Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:39:04 +0100
From:      ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
To:        Michiel Boland <boland@carmel.diva.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: package extension oddities on 4.6.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <3D5F8758.E1993CAE@ntlworld.com>
References:  <20020818034003.K87364-100000@carmel.diva.nl>

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Michiel Boland wrote:
> 
> Hi. I'm using 4.6.2-RELEASE. Ports tree was cvsup-ed today. No
> /etc/make.conf or funny environment variables or any of that.
> 
> When I use 'make package' to package a port on FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE it
> will create a package in /usr/ports/packages/All named *.tbz2, but the
> links in the category directories, like /usr/ports/packages/Latest etc.
> are called *.tbz and they point to a .tbz file as well, which makes them
> sort of not work.
> 
> Anyone any idea how I can get this to work properly?
> 
> Cheers
> Michiel
> 
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This came up on the list about a month ago.

Put
PKG_SUFX=.tgz
in /etc/make.conf.

I suggest you manually convert your tbz2 packages to
tgz format and fix the syminks by hand. That way
pkg_add -r will work.

-- 
ian j hart

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