Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:27:58 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Loh John Wu <ljwu@sandvine.com> Cc: 'Kris Kennaway' <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: how to get freeBSD 5.1 pkg_add to install .tgz files Message-ID: <20031118202758.GA50864@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853370283A46E@mail.sandvine.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853370283A46E@mail.sandvine.com>
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--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--
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